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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Size | 193 × 103 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio note with principal wording and denomination numeral '1000' rendered in dark blue, with numbering and signature in black. A central allegorical vignette to the right presents the emblem of the French Union, portraying a woman from metropolitan France in profile alongside a West Indian woman set before a stylised palm grove, evoking the colonial bond of the French overseas territories. The engraver's and designer's credits appear in the lower margin below the guilloche underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER L'ART. 139 DU CODE PENAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETES DE BANQUE AUTORISÉS PAR LA LOI W. FEL FEC. ARMANELLI SC. (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes forced labour those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorised by law.) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established by de Gaulle's provisional government in 1944 to handle currency in liberated and overseas French territories, deliberately bypassing the Banque de France's metropolitan monopoly. This 1000-franc note, printed at the Banque de France's Paris workshops, was issued across a remarkably heterogeneous range of territories — from French Guiana to Réunion to the Pacific settlements — making attribution of circulated examples to a specific territory genuinely difficult without accompanying documentation.
Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate; his involvement signals that this was treated as a prestige production, not a utility print.