100 Francs Without decrees

Issuer	Banque de l'Indo-Chine
Year	1920
Type	Standard circulation banknote
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Obverse description	Brown intaglio print on plain paper with black serial numbers. Central vignette presents two reclining allegorical female figures flanking a composition with an ox (Bos taurus) and tiger (Panthera tigris) at the lower margin, with elephant-motif columns forming the lateral borders. Trilingual inscriptions appear in French, Arabic, and Amharic, with the denomination expressed in all three scripts alongside the issuing authority and place-date of issue.
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Reverse description	Brown letterpress print on an overall guilloche underprint composed of dense repeating "BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE" microtext bands forming the horizontal and vertical fields. A large open circle occupies the centre, framed by an intricate guilloche border, with decorative squared panels at each corner containing the penal code warning legend in rotated orientation. The lateral margins carry vertical repeating bank-name strips, creating a symmetrical typographic pattern across the entire reverse.
Reverse lettering	L`ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLET DE BANQUE AUTORISÉS PAR LA LOI AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE (Translation: Article 139 of the penal code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeit or falsified banknotes authorized by law as well as those who have made use of these counterfeit or falsified notes. Bank of Indochina.)
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