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1000 Francs B.I.C overprint
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The left vignette shows a woman carrying a basket on her head, while a man holding a spear stands at right; an open landscape of lake, trees, and mountains fills the background. Trilingual text in French, Arabic, and Amharic appears across the note, flanked by denomination numerals and the standard penal code warning legend. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The B.I.C. overprint on this note was applied to distinguish issues specifically attributed to the Banque de l'Indo-Chine from the broader Banque de France production run — a bureaucratic necessity as wartime Vichy-administered Indochina maintained a nominally separate currency apparatus from metropolitan France. Jonas designed the original plate before the war; Beltrand's engraving work for the Banque de France was among the finest intaglio production of the period.
The 1943 dating places this squarely within Japanese occupation, when the B.I.C. continued operating under close surveillance from Tokyo-backed authorities until the March 1945 Japanese coup de force eliminated French administrative control entirely.