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10 New Francs Overprint on 1000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1961 |
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| Size | 185 × 102 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note with a central vignette of an Antillean fisherman at left and centre, flanked on both sides by stylised butterfly motifs. The margins carry multiple red 'Guyane' overprints, while a bold red letterpress overprint reading 'CONTRE-VALEUR DE 10 NOUVEAUX FRANCS' is applied across the centre of the note. The underlying 1000 Francs design remains visible beneath the overprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER MILLE FRANCS CONTRE-VALEUR DE 10 NOUVEAUX FRANCS Guyane (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Thousand Francs Counter-value of Ten New Francs Guiana) |
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When France redenominated its currency in 1960 — dropping two zeros and creating the nouveau franc — the overseas territories administered under the Caisse Centrale required their own transitional solution. Rather than commission entirely new plates, existing 1000 Francs notes were overprinted with the new valuation, a stopgap that was quicker and cheaper than a fresh print run but produced notes that circulated only briefly before purpose-designed replacements arrived.
The overprint series is short-lived by design. Notes from this issue are genuinely harder to find in any grade than the underlying 1000 Francs type, precisely because the window of use was so narrow.