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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947-1949 |
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| Size | 185 × 99 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note with the red overprint GUYANE repeated twice, applied over the base design from French Equatorial Africa (P#26). The central vignette at right presents an allegorical composition symbolic of the French Union, with a woman from metropolitan France facing a West Indian woman before a palm grove. Denomination in numerals and letters, along with wording of the issuing authority, is printed in dark blue, with numbering and signature in black. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour composition centred on a vignette of a Caribbean woman wearing a traditional madras headscarf, with a canoe sailing at sunset in the background. The lower portion carries a blue cartouche bearing the full text of Article 139 of the Penal Code as the standard anti-counterfeiting warning. Artists' credits appear in the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | GUYANE CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER 1000 GUYANE L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI W. FEL FEC. R. ARMANELLI SC. (Translation: Guiana Central Fund of Overseas France Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes forced Labor those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorized by Law.) |
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