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100 Francs

Uitgever Banque de la Guyane
Jaar 1933-1942
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Vorm Log in om details te zien
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Ontwerper(s) Log in om details te zien
Graveur(s) Obverse: Eugène Gaspérini
Reverse: Georges Hourriez
In omloop tot Log in om details te zien
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Beschrijving keerzijde Printed in blue-green tones, the reverse centres on a vignette of a small boat amid tropical flora, flanked by banana and coconut palm trees on either side. An aerial view of an island appears in the background, lending a distinctly colonial Guianese character to the composition. The engraver's and designer's credits appear within the lower margin.
Opschrift keerzijde BANQUE DE LA GUYANE 100 GEORGES DUVAL INV. DEL. HOURRIEZ SC.
(Translation: Bank of Guiana - 100)
Handtekening(en) Log in om details te zien
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Opmerkingen

Banque de la Guyane was a colonial note-issuing institution whose privilege derived not from the colony's economic weight — French Guiana was a minor backwater by any commercial measure — but from the same framework of privileged colonial banks established across French overseas territories in the nineteenth century. The Paris connection was structural: all Banque de la Guyane notes were printed by the Banque de France, which explains the unusually high production quality relative to the issuer's modest circulation requirements.

Danger and Gaspérini were a well-established pairing on Banque de France-produced colonial work. Gaspérini's intaglio engraving on this series is notably fine — a level of craft that outlasted the Banque de la Guyane itself, which was absorbed into the Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer following departmentalization in 1947.

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