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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by two allegorical female figures reclining at the lower register, one accompanied by an ox at left and the other by a tiger at right, rendered in intaglio. Ornate elephant-column vignettes frame the design at far left and far right. The central text panel carries the bank name, issuing branch, denomination, and payability clause, with the designers' and engraver's credits printed in small letterpress at the base. |
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| Reverse lettering | L'ART. 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI, AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS, CEUX QUI LES AURONT INTRODUITS SUR LE TERRITOIRE FRANÇAISE SERONT PUNIS DE LA MÊME PEINE. BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE |
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The Banque de l'Indo-Chine's wartime issues are frequently misattributed to commercial security printers, but this note was produced by the Banque de France itself — an institutional arrangement that reflected the close regulatory ties between the two banks rather than any emergency improvisation. Bramtot and Duval were both associated with the Banque de France's design stable, and Wullschleger was among the more accomplished intaglio engravers working in Paris at the turn of the century.
Pick 17 corresponds to the early emission of 1914, the year the Indochinese piastre was being managed under considerable strain as European war disrupted trade finance across the colonial network. Notes from this specific issue are meaningfully scarcer than later wartime printings.