Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
|---|---|
| Year | 1947-1949 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1000 Francs |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Multicolour composition centred on a tropical landscape vignette in which a dugout canoe with two figures is set against a volcanic island backdrop and calm waters. A female portrait in colourful headwrap occupies the right side in intaglio. Guilloche borders frame the design on both sides, with the GUADELOUPE overprint repeated in the left and right margins, and the statutory counterfeiting warning inscribed in a panel at lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | GUADELOUPE CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER 1000 L'ART 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES A PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI W. FEL. FEC. R. ARMANELLI SC. (Translation: Guadeloupe Central Fund of Overseas France Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labour in perpetuity those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorised by law.) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established by de Gaulle's provisional government in 1944 specifically to provide a parallel currency system for French overseas territories — distinct from metropolitan France's own postwar monetary reconstruction. This 1000-franc note falls within the immediate postwar stabilization period, when the CCFOM was simultaneously serving territories as geographically scattered as the Antilles, French Guiana, Réunion, and parts of the Pacific.
Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate and official painter of the Marine; his involvement reflects how seriously the French state treated colonial note design as a prestige commission. Hourriez's engraving work for the Banque de France in this period is considered among the finest intaglio output from the Paris atelier.