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10 Cents
| Issuer | Gouvernement Général de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 10 Cents (0.10 ICFP) |
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| Obverse lettering | GOUVERNEMENT GÉNÉRAL DE L'INDOCHINE 10 CENTS DIX CENTS LE TRÉSORIER GÉNÉRAL LE DIRECTEUR DES FINANCES PHẠM-NGỌC-KHUÊ IDEO – HANOI |
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| Variants | P#89a - serial # format XX 123.456 P#89b - serial # format 1 XX 123.456 |
| Comments |
This note exists because Japanese occupation had severed French Indochina from metropolitan France, cutting off the usual supply of currency from Paris. The Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi — primarily a government printing office — was pressed into banknote production out of necessity, not design. The result was locally sourced paper, locally cut plates, and a circulation piece that wore out quickly under tropical conditions.
Phạm Ngọc Khuê's involvement as designer is one of the few instances in this series where a Vietnamese national is credited on a French colonial issue. Survivors in any honest circulated grade are harder to find than the catalog frequency implies — the small format and cheap wartime paper combined badly.