Catalog
1 Piastre Red text
| Issuer | Institut d'Emission des Etats du Cambodge, du Laos et du Viet-Nam |
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| Year | 1953 |
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| Value | 1 Piastre (1 ICFP) |
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| Obverse lettering | INSTITUT D'EMISSION DES ETATS DU CAMBODGE, DU LAOS ET DU VIET-NAM 1 LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI CONFORMEMENT AUX LOIS EN VIGUEUR UNE PIASTRE SÉB. LAURENT FEC. HOURRIEZ SC. |
| Reverse description | At left, a full-length intaglio vignette shows a young male peasant wearing a conical hat and carrying a shoulder pole with two laden baskets; water buffaloes are visible in the rural background at right. Denomination inscriptions in Khmer, Lao, and Vietnamese scripts are arranged across the upper portion of the note, set against an ornate guilloche underprint. Designer and engraver credits appear in the lower margin. |
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This note belongs to the final chapter of French monetary administration in Indochina, issued just as the three Associated States were moving toward full independence. The Institut d'Emission replaced the Banque de l'Indochine as the issuing authority in 1952 — a political concession to Cambodian, Laotian, and Vietnamese autonomy that stopped well short of genuine monetary independence, since Paris retained control of the currency mechanism through the new institute.
Hourriez's engraving work for the Banque de France atelier was technically accomplished; the red colorway on this denomination was a deliberate differentiator within the series. By 1955 the institute itself was dissolved as each state established its own central bank.