| Obverse description |
A vignette at left centre presents a standing woman with a basket on her head, with a prickly pear plant to the right, rendered in a light intaglio print. The note is framed by an ornate blue guilloche border with Art Nouveau corner embellishments, and the vertical left margin carries the colony name in letterpress. The central text panel bears the denomination DIX FRANCS in large bold type above the emission guarantee text, dated Tananarive, 29 March 1917, with two manuscript signature panels below for the Directeur des Finances and the Trésorier-Payeur. |
| Obverse lettering |
République Française COLONIE DE MADAGASCAR ET DÉPENDANCES DIX FRANCS Emission de DIX MILLIONS de francs, garantie par les fonds de la Caisse de Réserve en Rentes sur l'État français, en obligations des emprunts de Madagascar et de l'Afrique occidentale française et en Bons du Trésor. (Décret du 17 septembre 1914) Tananarive, le 29 mars 1917 Le Directeur des Finances Le Trésorier-Payeur |
| Reverse description |
The reverse is printed entirely in a salmon-red letterpress on plain paper stock. Two circular vignettes, each bearing a classical allegorical group of figures with the legend LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ, flank a central Malagasy-language text block stating the equivalent value and the legal penalties for counterfeiting. The heading COLONIE DE MADAGASCAR ET DÉPENDANCES appears across the top, with the denomination equivalence ARIARY ROA set in bold display type at centre. |
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