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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Value | 100 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L`INDOCHINE EMISSION 1943 L`article 139 du Code Pénal punit des travaux forcés ceux qui auront contrefait ou falsifié les billets de banques autorisées par la loi. NOUMÉA 100 Fr. CENT FRANCS (Translation: Bank of Indochina 1943 Issue Article 139 of the Penal Code punished by forced labor perpetuity of those who have counterfeit or falsified these vouchers as well as those who have made use of these vouchers counterfeit or falsified. Noumea 100 Fr. Hundred Francs) |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DE L`INDOCHINE CENT 100 FRANCS NOUMÉA (Translation: Bank of Indochina Hundred Francs Noumea) |
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The Banque de l'Indochine 100 Francs of 1945 is one of the more geographically unlikely notes in the French colonial series. With Japanese forces occupying Indochina and metropolitan France unable to supply currency, the Allied-aligned administration turned to Australia. The Note Printing Branch in Melbourne produced the issue — a colonial French bank note rolling off Australian government presses is not a combination that recurs anywhere else in the catalog.
Distribution was complicated by the war's final months and the political chaos that followed Japan's August 1945 surrender. Many of these notes arrived in-territory only as the French were scrambling to reassert control against the Viet Minh.