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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER MILLE FRANCS Martinique (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Thousand Francs Martinique) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse printed over a guilloche underprint, centred on an intaglio vignette of a woman carrying a basket of bananas at left-centre. Stylised butterfly motifs frame both lateral margins, with multiple red overprints reading 'Martinique' applied along the borders. The statutory counterfeiting warning inscription runs along the lower margin in letterpress. |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was the transitional monetary authority threading French colonial currencies through decolonization — this 1960 note falls squarely in that turbulent window when territories across French Africa and the Pacific were either newly independent or days from becoming so. The CCFOM had already been effectively superseded in much of sub-Saharan Africa by the Institut d'Émission, yet continued issuing under its own name for remaining territories with no alternative infrastructure in place.
P#35 was valid across multiple jurisdictions simultaneously, which complicates provenance significantly. Overprint variants exist for specific territories; unoverprinted examples like this one circulated where no local successor authority had yet claimed the issuance function.