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100 Francs without date
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on cream paper. Central vignette of a classical allegorical female figure wearing a laurel wreath and holding a small statuette of Athena, set within an ornate arched frame flanked by decorative torchères. The penal code warning legend occupies the left field, with two manuscript signatures and their respective titles to the right, above the serial number and the place name NOUMÉA. |
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| Reverse description | Brown and yellow. Central vignette of the four-faced Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara tower from the Bayon Temple at Angkor, Cambodia, framed by guilloche borders. The denomination and place of issue are printed in the upper and lower panels, with the issuer's name across the top. |
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This note was produced under genuinely unusual circumstances. With French Indochina cut off from metropolitan France after the fall of Paris in 1940, the Banque de l'Indochine could no longer rely on the Imprimerie de la Banque de France for new stock. The Établissement Photographique et Cinématographique des Armées — a military photographic unit, not a commercial security printer — stepped in as the only viable local option, which accounts for the noticeably different print quality compared to earlier issues in the series.
The absence of a date is a direct consequence of wartime expediency rather than any institutional policy. Vichy-controlled Indochina under Admiral Decoux was issuing currency on borrowed infrastructure.