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100 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1944 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER CENT FRANCS 100 Le Directeur Général Le Président du Conseil de Surveillance |
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| Reverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER ORD. du 2 FÉV. 1944 100 L'article 139 du Code Pénal punit des travaux forcés 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. |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established by de Gaulle's provisional government in 1944 specifically to provide a currency apparatus for liberated and colonial French territories — distinct from metropolitan France and deliberately insulated from the compromised Vichy-era financial institutions. This note belongs to the first wave of issues that accompanied the restoration of Free French administrative authority across the overseas territories.
Bradbury Wilkinson handled the printing, as they did for numerous Allied governments-in-exile and colonial administrations during the war years — their New Malden works were heavily engaged with exactly this kind of emergency sovereign currency production throughout 1943–45.