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0,10 Franc
| Issuer | Government of Madagascar and Dependencies |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on plain paper and bears a central vignette of a standing zebu (humped cattle), rendered in a simple engraved style. The denomination '0,10' appears vertically along the right edge, and the Malagasy word 'Ilavoamena' is inscribed vertically along the left side. |
| Reverse lettering | Ilavoamena 0,10 |
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Madagascar's colonial administration issued fractional notes in 1916 largely because of a coin shortage — small denomination metal currency had been drained from the island by wartime metal demands and disrupted shipping from France. These emergency papier-monnaie pieces were never intended as a permanent fixture; the colonial government expected to withdraw them once coinage returned to normal circulation.
Local printing under wartime conditions is the more unusual detail here. Most colonial emergency issues from this period were handled by metropolitan presses, but P#23 was produced in Madagascar itself — a logistical necessity, not a deliberate policy choice.