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1 Franc
| Issuer | Trésorerie de Nouméa |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the obverse centres on a vignette of an industrial port scene with loading cranes, buildings, and mining infrastructure. The denomination "1 F." appears in the upper left and upper right corners, with "UN FRANC" in large letters across the centre. Signature panels for Le Gouverneur (Nouméa, left) and Le Trésorier-Payeur (right) appear at the lower portion, with a serial number and the date "le 29 mars 1943" below. |
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| Reverse lettering | BON DE CAISSE L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ CES BONS AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BONS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS. TRÉSOR 1 F. NOUMÉA ARRÊTÉ DU 29 JANVIER 1943 (Translation: Cash Voucher / Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labour in perpetuity those who have counterfeited or falsified these notes as well as those who have made use of such counterfeited or falsified notes. / Treasury / 1 Franc / Nouméa / Order of 29 January 1943) |
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The Trésorerie de Nouméa emergency issues of 1943 were produced locally in New Caledonia after the territory had rallied to Free France and been cut off from normal metropolitan supply chains. With Japanese forces advancing through the Pacific and regular banknote printing from France impossible, local authorities improvised low-denomination notes to keep small transactions functioning. The printing quality reflects those constraints.
Pick 55 is among the more frequently encountered of the Nouméa wartime pieces, though the fragile paper and informal production conditions mean genuinely clean survivors are proportionally rarer than raw survival numbers suggest.