1. Issued in 1961, it existed alongside the Malagasy franc until 2005, during which time one Ariary was equal to five francs

2. And, in 1972, the ever-present image of former Governor General Joseph Gallieni on the colonial monetary currency, the Madagascar-Comores CFA franc, was replaced by depictions of local flora and fauna and classic, romanticized Malagasy ethnic portraiture on the newly minted Malagasy franc (renamed again in 2005 as the Malagasy Ariary).