Ivory Coast

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.  File:Iv Co 1892 4c.webp|1892 4c type Groupe File:Iv Co 1906 5c Faidherbe (1).webp|1906 5c Faidherbe File:Iv Co 1912 10c on 40c.webp|1912 10c on 40c surcharge File:Iv Co 1913 35c.webp|1913 35c definitive File:Iv Co 1924 25c on 2f.webp|1924 25c on 2f surcharge 
 * 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, "5" 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 for definitives.
 * 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.

 File:Iv Co 1933 4c.webp|1933 4c overprint File:Iv Co 1936 10c.webp|1936 10c Baoulé woman definitive File:Iv Co 1936 30c.webp|1936 30c Bobo-Dioulasso Mosque definitive File:Iv Co 1936 75c.webp|1936 75c river view definitive File:Iv Co 1940 6.90f air.webp|1940 6.90f airmail 
 * In 1931, the Colonial Exhibition set was issued, the 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:Iv Co 1959 10f elephant.webp|1959 10f independence File:Ivory Coast dogs.A.webp|1963 50f wild dogs definitive File:Ivory Cost coffee.jpg|1975 5f coffee File:Iv Co 80f tour Yr.webp|1982 80f Tourism Year 
 * In 1958, three values featuring an elephant were issued, inscribed REPUBLIQUE DE / CÔTE D'IVOIRE.
 * Year dates began appearing on stamps about 1977.



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Beginning in 2002, bogus topical issues in sheetlets and souvenir sheets began appearing. The earliest fraudulent "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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