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100 Piastres Violet frame
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Currency | Piastre (1880-1952) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed violet and green vignette with a lively market scene extending across both the left and right panels, rendered in a detailed academic style with indigenous figures carrying goods and baskets; the denomination CENT PIASTRES appears in large central letterpress text within a guilloche underprint. The bank title BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE runs along the top, with three signature panels at the lower centre designating the Directeur Général, the Caissier de la Succursale, and the Directeur de la Succursale de Saïgon; the engraver's credit G. BARRIÈRE DEL. & SC. and printer's imprint IDEO. HANOI appear at the lower margins. |
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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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