Blue and red on yellow underprint. Elephant columns at left and right; two reclining women with ox at left and tiger at right.
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Blue on yellow underprint.
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Obverse lettering
Décret du 20 Février 1888.
BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE
Nouméa, le 10 MAI 1889
CENT FRANCS
payables en espèces au porteur
Specimen
A BRAMTOT ET G. DUVAL. FEC CH. WULLSCHLEGER SC (Translation: Decree of February 20, 1888. Bank of Indochina Noumea, May 10th., 1889 Hundred Francs payable in cash to bearer)
Reverse lettering
L`ART. 139
DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES
TRAVAUX FORCÉS A PERPÉTUITÉ
CEUX QUI AURONT
CONTREFAIT OU FAL-
SIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES
PAR LA LOI, AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT
USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FAL-
SIFIÉS, CEUX QUI LES AURONT INTRO-
DUITS SUR LE TERRITOIRE FRAN-
ÇAISE SERONT PUNIS DE
LA MÊME PEINE.
BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE
BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE (Translation: Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes forced labor for life killed those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law, as well as those who will have used these counterfeit or falsified Notes proud, those who will have them in-found on the French territory that will be punished of the same sentence. Bank of Indochina)