Ivory Coast

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Ivory Coast, or Côte D'Ivoire, is a country in west Africa, formerly a French colony form the mid-1800s to 1960.

Prior to issuing its own stamps, French colonies general issues were used. Usages can be identified by CDSs or diamond-shaped killers/obliterators with ASI. 
 * In 1892-1900, type Groupe stamps were issued inscribed CÔTE / D'IVOIRE. Forgeries exist; see: Hirschberger forgeries.
 * In 1904, three surcharges were issued.
 * In 1906-97, Faidherbe keytypes were issued.
 * In 1912, "%" and "10" surcharges were issued on type Groupe stamps to use up old stamps.
 * In 1913-35, a canoe on a river design was issued.
 * In 1915, a red cross and "5c" were surcharged on a 10c pictorial as the country's first semipostal issue.
 * In 1922-27, surcharges in different types were released.




 * In 1931, the Colonial Exhibition set was issued, this first of several omnibus issues.
 * In 1993, contemporary Upper Volta stamps were overprinted or surcharged "Côte d'Ivoire" with the original country name lined out.
 * In 1936-44, a new engraved pictorial definitive series was issued in four designs.
 * In 1940, the airplane over jungle airmail series was released. This was followed by the 1942 standard design airmail set, thought to have never been used.
 * Beginning in 1941, various Vichy government issues were released in France but never used in the Ivory Coast.
 * In 1945, Ivory Coast became part of French West Africa.



Republic
In 1958, Ivory Coast became a republic and became fully independent in 1960.  File:Ivory Coast dogs.jpg File:Ivory Cost coffee.jpg 
 * In 1958, three values featuring an elephant were issued, inscribed REPUBLIQUE DE / CÔTE D'IVOIRE.
 * Year dates began appearing on stamps about 1977.

Beginning in 2002, bogus topical issues in sheetlets and souvenir sheets began appearing. The earliest "issues" do not have the year date preceded by "POSTE" See: the illustrated Golowes site on these fakes

See

 * Ivory Coast – back of the book issues

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