Catalog
1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de Madagascar et des Comores |
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| Year | 1950-1953 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a Malagasy woman and man in traditional dress, both smiling, rendered in intaglio. An elaborate floral underprint fills the background. Denomination numeral 1000 appears at left and right, with issuer and authority inscriptions arranged around the central figures. |
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| Protection description | Head of a woman in profile |
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The Banque de Madagascar et des Comores was itself a transitional institution — created in 1950 to replace the Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer as the note-issuing authority for both territories, it operated during a politically charged period following the brutal suppression of the 1947 Malagasy uprising. This 1000-franc series was among the first issued under that new mandate.
Beltrand was one of the Banque de France's most accomplished engravers of the mid-century, and Fel's design work appeared across multiple French colonial series of the period — the same artistic infrastructure served Indochina, West Africa, and the Indian Ocean territories almost interchangeably.