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100 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Piastre (1880-1952) |
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| Obverse description | A standing allegorical Western female figure at left and an elegantly robed Asian man at right flank a large central guilloche vignette bearing the numeral "100", with the date "SAIGON, le 5 Janvier 1920" inscribed below; the composition is executed in intaglio in a blue-violet palette with two manuscript administrator signatures at centre. Designer and engraver credits appear in the lower margin: "h. Bellery Desfontaines del." at left and "L. Ruffe sc." at right. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE SAIGON CENT PIASTRES PAYABLES EN ESPECES A VUE AU PORTEUR UN ADMINISTRATEUR L'ADMINISTRATEUR-DIRECTEUR h. Bellery Desfontaines del. L. Ruffe sc. |
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| Reverse lettering | 壹百元 奉本國特諭 東方滙理銀行 銀壹百元見字交銀 高綿 六省 h. Bellery Desfontaines del. E. Gaspe sc. |
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