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1 Piastre - Haïphong
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1903-1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE HAÏPHONG DÉCRETS DES 21 JANVIER 1875, 20 FÉVRIER 1888, 16 MAI 1900 & 3 AVRIL 1901 EMISSION AUTORISÉE LE 3 AOÛT 1891 UNE PIASTRE PAYABLE EN ESPÈCES AU PORTEUR UN ADMINISTRATEUR : UNE PIASTRE PAYABLE EN ESPÈCES AU PORTEUR L'ADMR-DIRECTEUR : DANIEL DUPUIS ET GEORGES DUVAL FEC. B. LEVEILLE SC. |
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| Reverse lettering | $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 PENAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES A PERPE-TUITE CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIE LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISEES 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 branch designation on this note reflects the Banque de l'Indo-Chine's practice of issuing regionally overprinted or branch-specific notes across its network of offices in Indochina — Haïphong, Saigon, Hanoi, and beyond — a system that created dozens of distinct catalogue varieties from shared plate designs. The engraving is Léveillé's work after designs by Duval and Dupuis, a Parisian atelier arrangement common to French colonial currency of the period, with Dupuis best known as a medallist at the Monnaie de Paris.
The eighteen-year issue window spanning 1903 to 1921 suggests the type remained in production across both the pre-war colonial economy and the disrupted shipping and supply conditions of World War One, when re-ordering new plate designs from Paris was neither simple nor fast.