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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la Guadeloupe |
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| Year | 1934-1944 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1960) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE LA GUADELOUPE CENT FRANCS PAYABLE EN ESPÈCES, A VUE, AU PORTEUR GUADELOUPE L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX-FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ LE CONTREFACTEUR H. DANGER FEC. E. GASPÉ SC. (Translation: Bank of Guadeloupe One Hundred Francs payable in cash, on demand, to bearer. Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes the counterfeiter with forced labour in perpetuity.) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banque de la Guadeloupe was a private institution holding the note-issuing privilege for both Guadeloupe and Martinique, a colonial arrangement that persisted until the Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer absorbed those functions after the war. This note spans a ten-year issue window covering the fall of France, the Vichy period, and the Allied liberation — a politically turbulent stretch during which the islands' allegiances shifted, supply lines to metropolitan France were interrupted, and the practical question of currency supply became genuinely acute.
Gaspérini's intaglio work on the obverse is characteristic of Banque de France production standards of the period. The Duval/Hourriez pairing on the reverse follows the division of labor common to French colonial issues printed in Paris.