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10 Francs
| Issuer | Trésor Colonial de la Martinique |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Currency | Franc (1855-1960) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on a red-orange underprint, the note presents a heavy decorative border without a central space reserved for a serial number. All text is arranged within the border frame in letterpress, with the decree date and denomination rendered in a formal typographic style consistent with late nineteenth-century colonial fiscal documents. |
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| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is unprinted, showing only the plain red-orange paper stock with no design, lettering, or decorative elements. |
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The Trésor Colonial issues for Martinique occupied an awkward administrative space — they were not central bank notes but colonial treasury instruments, produced to fill the gap left by the chronic shortage of small-denomination specie on the island. The 1884 date places this squarely in the period before the Banque de la Martinique was granted its note-issuing concession, when the colonial treasury handled emergency liquidity directly.
Pick 5 is genuinely rare in any condition. The combination of tropical humidity, heavy hand-to-hand use in a small island economy, and the near-total absence of surviving archive stocks means attrition was severe.