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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Trésor Public - Côte Française des Somalis |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: André Marliat Reverse: Robert Armanelli |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 TRÉSOR PUBLIC DJIBOUTI ۱۰۰۰ ሺ CÔTE FRANÇAISE DES SOMALIS MILLE FRANCS R. POUGHEON FEC. A MARLIAT SC. (Translation: Public treasury. 1000. French Somaliland. One thousand francs.) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio and letterpress print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. A female figure holding a jug occupies the centre, with a ship vignette at lower left. Trilingual text in French, Arabic, and Amharic runs along the lower portion of the note, including the statutory counterfeit warning. |
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Robert Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate and academic painter whose work rarely found its way onto colonial paper currency — this series is something of an exception. The engraving on the obverse was handled by André Marliat, one of the Banque de France's more accomplished intaglio specialists of the postwar decade, while Armanelli took the reverse.
Côte Française des Somalis was a small, strategically positioned territory on the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, and the 1952 issue came at a moment when France was quietly rationalizing its overseas treasury emissions. High denominations like this one saw limited day-to-day movement in a territory with a modest cash economy heavily dependent on the port of Djibouti.