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100 Francs F.C. overprint
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Engraver(s) | Marguerite Dreyfus (Rita) |
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| Reverse description | Brown and green intaglio print over a yellow underprint. The central vignette presents the four faces of the Bayon-style Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara tower at Angkor Thom, Cambodia, flanked at left and right by gates surmounted by stylized flame motifs. Legends appear in French, Arabic, and Amharic scripts arranged across the note. |
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| Protection description | Native's head. |
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During the Japanese occupation of Indochina, the Banque de France continued producing notes for the Banque de l'Indo-Chine on metropolitan French soil — a peculiarity of the Vichy-era arrangement that kept French colonial financial administration nominally intact while Japan exercised military control on the ground. The "F.C." overprint (Franc Colonial) was applied to distinguish these issues within a system of exchange controls intended to manage currency flows between occupied France and its overseas territories.
The engraving is the work of Marguerite Dreyfus, known professionally as Rita — one of the few women engravers working at the Banque de France during this period. The circumstances of a Jewish engraver producing official currency under Vichy's racial laws add an uncomfortable footnote to this note's production history.