Called also Guinea Conakry to avoid confusion with Equatorial Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, this Country had its map printed on chip cards introduced in 1992. These cards are quite common, as several reprints have been made;…
Equatorial Guinea, 1991
Chip cards were introduced in 1991 and are still in use. The first card was a plain white definitive, with chip in AFNOR position (top-left corner) and face value indicated in local value, while following…
Ghana, 1988
The design of the Landis & Gyr cards have been used for several years, and many reprints. However, they can be easily distinguished by control number on back; moreover, the blue 60 units card with…
Egypt, 1985
Egypt is actually using chip cards; previously magnetic cards supplied by Japanese Tamura and optical Landis & Gyr cards have been utilized, but up to 1991 the magstripe cards by Italian Urmet were in use.…
Chad, 1988
Optical cards, only definitive with three values (30, 60 and 120 units), were supplied to Chad by Landis & Gyr. The first issues were without notch while later on they were reprinted notched. Then, in…
Cameroon, 1987
Magnetic cards supplied by Swiss Autelca have been in use up to 1990. There were three values, 1500 F (50,000 issued), 3000 F (30,000), and 5000 F (15,000). A new series of definitives appeared later,…
