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100 Francs
| Issuer | Etablissement de Nouméa |
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| Year | 1875 |
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| Currency | Franc (1873-1945) |
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| Obverse description | Pale blue note printed on a guilloche underprint with an ornate foliate border. A circular official seal appears at the upper right, enclosing a vignette of a classical allegorical figure above a coastal harbour scene, with an outer legend referencing Nouméa and New Caledonia. The central text carries the promissory inscription in letterpress, with the denomination CENT FRANCS in large bold type flanked by a star, and the numeral 100 repeated in the lower corners within circular cartouches. |
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| Obverse lettering | ETABLISSEMENT DE NOUMÉA A Emission de Billets de Banque Autorisée par décret en date Du 14 Juillet 1874 Il sera payé à vue et au porteur CENT FRANCS★ Nouméa, le 25 JANVIER 1875 UN ADMINISTRATEUR LE DIRECTEUR UN ADMINISTRATEUR 100 100 (Translation: Noumea Establishment Issue of Bank Notes Authorized by decree on date from July 14, 1874 It will be paid on sight and to bearer One Hundred Francs★ Nouméa, January 25, 1875 An Administrator The Director) |
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The Etablissement de Nouméa was a short-lived private bank operating in New Caledonia under French colonial authority, and its notes occupy a genuinely obscure corner of Pacific numismatics. By 1875 the territory had been a penal colony for over two decades, and its commercial economy was thin enough that private bank paper of this denomination was as much a statement of institutional ambition as a practical circulating instrument.
Survivors are extremely rare. The bank's operations were absorbed into successor colonial financial structures not long after issue, and redemption or destruction of outstanding notes was effectively total.