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| Uitgever | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Jaar | 1892-1899 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The reverse is printed entirely in blue with a large central panel of Chinese characters arranged in a vertical columnar format, conveying the bank name and value in Chinese script. Twin dragon vignettes flank the central text at the lower centre, engraved in intaglio, while the denomination '$1' appears in each corner. Repetitive guilloche geometric borders and fretwork panels fill the margins, and the anti-counterfeiting Article 139 warning text in French appears in two columns flanking the central Chinese inscription. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | $1 $1 BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE 東方滙理銀行 銀壹元正 奉本國特諭 L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI, AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS. $1 $1 DANIEL DUPUIS ET GEORGES DUVAL FEC. |
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The Haïphong payability designation on this note reflects the commercial geography of northern Vietnam in the 1890s — Haïphong was the principal port serving Hanoi and the Tonkin delta trade routes, and the Banque de l'Indochine maintained a separate branch there distinct from its Saigon operations. Notes were issued payable at specific branches rather than as a unified territorial currency, a French colonial banking convention inherited from metropolitan practice.
Dupuis was a medallist of considerable reputation, and Léveillé's engraving work was executed to the exacting standards the Banque de France demanded of its own note production. The piastre/dollar dual denomination acknowledges the note's intended role in trade with neighboring British and treaty-port commerce, where the Mexican dollar remained the dominant unit of account.