Catalog
100 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Value | 100 Piastres (100 ICFP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette in brown intaglio print presents scenes of local Indochinese daily life, with figures carrying baskets and produce arranged across the full width of the note in a panoramic composition engraved by Barrière. The denomination CENT PIASTRES is printed in large bold letterpress at centre, flanked by the value numeral 100 in each upper corner against a guilloche underprint border. Three signature fields appear below the vignette, each captioned with titles in French, with serial numbers in brown ink at lower left and lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | MOT TRAM DONG VANG 東方匯理銀行 壹佰元 100 PHAM-NGOC KHUE IDEO. HANOI |
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This note was produced locally in Hanoi under Japanese occupation, when regular supplies from metropolitan France and established European security printers were cut off entirely. The Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient was a commercial press, not a dedicated currency printer, and the compromises that forced are visible in the security features — or the absence of them. Forgery was a persistent problem with wartime Indochinese issues.
Phạm Ngọc Khuê's involvement on the reverse is genuinely unusual — a Vietnamese designer credited on a colonial banknote during this period is rare, and the circumstances under which he received the commission are not well documented.