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| Emittent | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Jahr | 1920-1923 |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | An elaborate guilloche border composed of interlaced floral and foliate ornaments encloses the entire face of the note, with repeating decorative cartouches along all four sides. The central field carries the decree date, authorized emission date, and the anti-counterfeiting legal warning in full. Denomination numerals appear in the lower left and right corners, with the printer's and designer's names at the foot. |
| Rückseitenlegende | DÉCRET DU 3 AVRIL 1901 Émission autorisée le 6 Octobre 1919. L'article 139 du Code pénal punit des travaux forcés à perpétuité ceux qui auront contrefait ou falsifié les Billets de Banques autorisées par la Loi, ainsi que ceux qui auront fait usage de ces Billets contrefaits ou falsifiés. G. FRAIPONT. CHAIX PARIS |
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| Anmerkungen |
Banque de l'Indo-Chine's fractional paper issues of the early 1920s were a direct response to a severe small-change shortage across French Indochina — metallic coin supply had never recovered properly after the disruptions of the First World War, and the colonial administration needed something fast and cheap to plug the gap. These 10-centime notes were effectively emergency scrip, never intended as permanent fixtures of the currency system.
Imprimerie Chaix was primarily a commercial and poster printer, not a specialist banknote house — an unusual choice that reflects the urgency of the commission. Gustave Fraipont was principally known as an Art Nouveau illustrator and poster designer, which places this issue firmly outside the conventional engraving tradition of serious colonial currency.