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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la Guadeloupe |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Black on blue underprint, reduced-size format relative to P#26. A portrait vignette of Karukera is centered on the face, framed by guilloche patterning. Three red overprinted SPECIMEN stamps appear across the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE LA GUADELOUPE 1000 MILLE FRANCS PAYABLES EN ESPÈCES A VUE AU PORTEUR L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ LE CONTREFACTEUR 1000 E. A. WRIGHT BANK NOTE CO., PHILA. SPECIMEN (Translation: Bank of Guadeloupe Thousand Francs Payable in cash to bearer Article 129 of the Penal Code finishes forced labor in perpetuity for the counterfeiter.) |
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Guadeloupe's banking system remained loyal to Vichy France after the 1940 armistice, leaving the island financially isolated from Allied networks. The Banque de la Guadeloupe could not access its usual French metropolitan printing sources, which is precisely why this note was produced in Philadelphia — the E. A. Wright contract was an expedient born of wartime disruption, not a peacetime arrangement.
The Free French blockade of Vichy-held Antilles lasted until 1943, when Guadeloupe finally joined the Allied cause. Notes from 1942 circulated under a deeply unstable political administration and are comparatively scarce as a result.