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10 Francs - Colbert
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1950-1960 |
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| Currency | Franc (1945-1960) |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette of a lush tropical landscape framing a central river scene, with a laden dugout canoe carrying figures across calm waters beneath a verdant canopy of trees. Exotic fruit-bearing foliage — including what appear to be oranges and pineapples — fills the foreground on both sides, while geometric guilloche panels in blue and ochre border the composition at left and right. The legal warning cartouche appears at lower right, with engraver and designer credits in the lower corners. |
| Reverse lettering | SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D`OUTRE-MER 10 SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON L`ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI P. MUNIER FEC. A. CHAPON SC. (Translation: Saint Pierre and Miquelon Central Fund of Overseas France Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law.) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established in 1944 to manage currency across French overseas territories, replacing the earlier colonial treasury arrangements that had broken down under the Occupation. This note circulated across a remarkably broad monetary zone — the same P#23 type was valid tender in territories spanning the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific simultaneously, a logistical peculiarity that made counterdenomination accounting genuinely complicated for local administrators.
Hourriez and Chapon were both senior Banque de France engravers working during the postwar period when the institution was producing currency for much of Francophone Africa and the overseas departments. The ten-franc denomination was effectively small change within a decade — inflation across the franc zone rendered low-value notes increasingly ceremonial before the series was retired.