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1 Franc penal text in 3 lines on reverse
| Issuer | Trésorerie de Nouméa |
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| Year | 1918-1919 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NOUVELLE-CALÉDONIE ET DÉPENDANCES TRÉSORERIE de NOUMÉA Décret du 14 Novembre 1918 Un Franc Nouméa, le 13 Janvier 1919 (Translation: New Caledonia and Dependencies Noumea Treasury Decree of November 14, 1918 One Franc Nouméa, January 13, 1919) |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE 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 EN AURONT FAIT USAGE. Les Bons seront retirés de la circulation dans un délai de un an à courir de la cessation des hostilités. 1 Ft TRÉSOR (Translation: French Republic Cash Voucher Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor in perpetuity those who have counterfeited or falsified these vouchers as well as those who have made use of them. The Vouchers will be withdrawn from circulation within a period of one year from the cessation of hostilities. 1 Franc Treasury) |
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Trésorerie de Nouméa issued these small emergency notes during the acute coin shortage that followed World War One, when metallic currency virtually stopped reaching New Caledonia from metropolitan France. The reverse carries a three-line penal warning — a response to the forgery problems that had plagued earlier local issues in the territory, and an unusually emphatic legal inscription for a note of this denomination.
The distinction between the two reverse types in this series matters for cataloging: earlier impressions omit the third warning line entirely, making the three-line variant the more precisely datable of the two.