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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1889-1898 |
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| Currency | Franc (1873-1945) |
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| Obverse description | Blue and red on yellow underprint. The central vignette presents two reclining allegorical female figures flanking a central cartouche, with an ox at left and a tiger at right, while ornate elephant columns frame the composition at the far left and right margins. Intricate guilloche work fills the background throughout, with denomination and issuing authority inscriptions arranged in the upper and lower registers. |
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| Reverse lettering | L`ART. 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS A PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FAL- SIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI, AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FAL- SIFIÉS, CEUX QUI LES AURONT INTRO- DUITS SUR LE TERRITOIRE FRAN- ÇAISE SERONT PUNIS DE LA MÊME PEINE. BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE (Translation: Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor for life those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law, as well as those who have made use of these counterfeited or falsified notes; those who have introduced them onto French territory will be punished with the same penalty. Bank of Indochina) |
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The Banque de l'Indo-Chine was established by decree in 1875 with a mandate to issue notes across French Indochina and, initially, the French Indian settlements and Réunion as well. This 100 Francs note was produced by the Banque de France's own printing workshops — an unusual arrangement that gave the colonial issue a technical quality matching metropolitan French paper money of the same period. Bramtot was a Prix de Rome medallist better known for his Salon paintings; his involvement in banknote design was a sideline, but the Banque de France drew on exactly that pool of academic talent.
Wullschleger's engraving is the detail that separates this series from most colonial issues of the decade.