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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note printed in blue, yellow, and green with black serial numbers. The left portion of the face is occupied by a guilloche panel, while the denomination numeral and value text are positioned at right; the issuer name, statutory warning text in French, and the place name DJIBOUTI appear in the surrounding field, with officer title lines printed below. The printer's imprint GOVERNMENT PRINTER, PALESTINE is present in the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE MILLE FRANCS L`ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PENAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÈS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉE PAR LA LOI DJIBOUTI LE PRESIDENT LE DIRECTEUR GENERAL 1000 GOVERNMENT PRINTER, PALESTINE (Translation: Bank of Indochina. One thousand francs. Article 139 of the penal code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorized by law. The president, the general director.) |
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The Banque de l'Indo-Chine 1000 Francs of 1945 is one of the more geographically improbable notes in the French colonial canon. With Japanese occupation cutting off access to established European and American printers, the bank arranged production in wartime Jerusalem — Emil M. Pikovsky Ltd. being a small but functional security printing operation in British Mandatory Palestine. The result is a note whose printing quality noticeably trails the pre-war Paris-produced issues of the same series.
Pikovsky also designed the note, an unusual consolidation of roles for a security printer of that scale.