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100 Piastres Violet frame
| 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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| Reverse description | Central vignette in violet intaglio of a multi-tiered Vietnamese pagoda set within a rice paddy landscape, framed by an elaborate wreath of wheat and rice stalks. At upper centre the Vietnamese inscription MOT TRAM DONG VANG appears in letterpress, flanked by Chinese characters reading 東方匯理銀行 壹佰元 at left and the Khmer numeral denomination 100 at right; the legal warning text in French occupies a cartouche at the lower centre, with the designer credit PHAM NGOC KHUE and printer imprint IDEO. HANOI at the lower margins. |
| Reverse lettering | MOT TRAM DONG VANG 東方匯理銀行 壹佰元 L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉE PAR LA LOI PHAM-NGOC KHUE IDEO. HANOI |
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Printed locally in Hanoi under Japanese occupation, this note was produced by the Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient because the normal supply chain from Metropolitan France had been severed. The Banque de l'Indochine continued issuing currency under Vichy authority until the Japanese coup of 9 March 1945 — the coup de force that dismantled French administrative control overnight — after which remaining stocks became operationally and politically awkward.
The reverse credit to Phạm Ngọc Khuê is notable: local Vietnamese engravers contributing to colonial banknote production was unusual enough to warrant attention, and his involvement reflects the practical necessity of relying on Hanoi-based talent once metropolitan resources were inaccessible.