100 Francs

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.