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1 Piastre
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Value | 1 Piastre (1 ICFP) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE UNE PIASTRE TRAN-TANLOC DEL IDEO-HANOI |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue and black on a guilloche underprint, the reverse centres on a vignette of a standing Khmer or Hindu deity figure set within an elaborate architectural surround, flanked by two large circular guilloche medallions each bearing the numeral '1'. Chinese characters reading '壹元' and the bank name in Chinese appear in the left medallion, while Khmer script occupies the right medallion. The Vietnamese header 'GIAY MOT DONG VANG' runs across the top, and a legal warning in French is printed below the central vignette. |
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This note was produced locally in Hanoi because the Japanese occupation of French Indochina severed normal supply lines to metropolitan French printers. The Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, a commercial press not purpose-built for currency production, had to substitute — resulting in printing quality noticeably inferior to prewar Banque de l'Indochine issues from Paris or Bordeaux.
Trần Tấn Lộc's involvement as designer marks one of the very few instances in the colonial series where a Vietnamese artist received formal credit on a currency commission. The wartime date range reflects the Vichy administration's continued operation of the bank under Japanese oversight until the March 1945 coup de force, when Japan formally dissolved French colonial authority in Indochina.