100 Piastres Green frame

Produced entirely within occupied Indochina after the fall of France severed normal supply lines to metropolitan printers, this note is one of the few Banque de l'Indochine issues designed, engraved, and printed locally from start to finish. The Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi had the technical capacity but not the security infrastructure of Parisian ateliers, and the quality differential shows in the engraving — Georges Barrière's work is competent but uneven compared to his contemporaries working under better conditions.

Phạm Ngọc Khuê's involvement on the reverse is notable: a Vietnamese artist contributing to an official colonial currency issue was genuinely unusual for the period.