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100 Francs - La Bourdonnais
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947-1949 |
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| Value | 100 Francs |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio vignette with a large female bust in right profile occupying the right half of the note, draped in an orange garment and wearing ornate earrings; a sweeping tropical mountain landscape with palm trees and a river valley fills the left background. A decorative architectural cartouche in the lower left carries the statutory anti-counterfeiting warning text, and the red letterpress overprint GUYANE is centred across the design, with additional GUYANE inscriptions running vertically along both lateral margins. |
| Reverse lettering | GUYANE CENT FRANCS CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER W. FEL FEG. G. REGNIER SC. L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉS PAR LA LOI |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established in 1944 specifically to manage currency across France's overseas territories following Liberation, replacing the wartime arrangements that had fractured colonial monetary administration. This 100 Francs note circulated across multiple territories — the same P#23 design served Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon simultaneously, with no territorial overprint distinguishing one from another.
Armanelli's intaglio work on this series is meticulous. Régnier, responsible for the reverse plate, was a senior engraver at the Banque de France with decades of sovereign work behind him by the time this note was produced.