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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. A female figure holding a jug occupies the centre of the composition, with a ship vignette at lower left. Trilingual anti-counterfeiting text in French, Arabic, and Amharic frames the design, with denomination numerals in all three scripts and the engravers' credits at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | 1000 BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE ۱۰۰۰ ሺ ألف فرنك L`ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLET DE BANQUE AUTORISÉS PAR LA LOI AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS አንድ ሺ ፍራንክ R. POUGHEON FEC. R. ARMANELLI SC. (Translation: Bank of Indochina. 1000. One thousand francs. Article 139 of the penal code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeit or falsified banknotes authorized by law as well as those who have made use of these counterfeit or falsified notes.) |
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This note was printed by the Banque de France but never reached Indochina in any meaningful quantity. In the immediate postwar period, the Banque de l'Indochine faced a chaotic monetary situation — Japanese military yen, piasters of dubious backing, and rival currencies issued under the brief independence declarations of 1945 had all fractured circulation. The 1946 series was largely overtaken by political events before distribution could be normalized, and many notes from this printing were administratively withdrawn rather than circulated.
Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate and established figure in French decorative arts; his involvement reflects how seriously the Banque de France treated colonial note design even at this late stage. Marliat and Armanelli were both house engravers at the Banque de France during the 1940s.