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100 Francs - La Bourdonnais
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1950-1960 |
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| Designer(s) | William Fel |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio and letterpress note with blue-grey tones for the principal text and value. At left, a portrait vignette of Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, the 18th-century French navigator and colonial administrator; at right, two women rendered in traditional costume form a secondary vignette. A single manuscript signature appears below for the Managing Director (A. Postel-Vinay), with the SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON overprint and serial numbering both applied in black. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette presents a bust of a woman in profile, adorned with jewellery, set against a mountainous Martinican landscape. At left, article 139 of the French Penal Code is reproduced within a red cartouche as an anti-counterfeiting warning. The SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON overprint is applied twice in black, flanking the central design. |
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| Protection description | Watermark with a woman's head wearing a Phrygian cap. |
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