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| 正面描述 | 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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| 背面描述 | The reverse is dominated by a large central dragon vignette set within an elaborate wave-pattern underprint and geometric border typical of the Bellery-Desfontaines style, with bands of Chinese-character inscriptions arranged in horizontal registers across the upper portion of the note. A small legal-warning text block in French appears at lower centre, and the engraver credit "E. Gaspe sc." is noted in the lower right margin. |
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The Banque de l'Indo-Chine was a Paris-chartered institution that functioned as the colonial issuing authority across French Indochina, and its higher denominations were always produced in France — partly for quality control, partly to keep currency manufacturing firmly outside the colonies. This 100 Piastres belongs to a series that spans a notably long print run, with P#42 issued across multiple dates through the early 1920s.
Bellery-Desfontaines died in 1909, meaning the design was drawn well before this note entered production — the plates were simply carried forward. Ruffe and Gaspérini were both established Banque de France engravers whose work appears across multiple French colonial issues of the period.