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1000 Francs Nouméa
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1940-1963 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio-printed note with a lively market scene vignette in the background and at left; a native woman is seated at right in the foreground. The issuer's name BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE and denomination MILLE FRANCS appear alongside the place-name NOUMÉA, with artist credits L. JONAS FEC. and G. BELTRAND SC. in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE 1000 L'ART. 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI L. JONAS FEC. G. BELTRAND SC. (Translation: Bank of Indochina 1000. Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with hard labour those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law.) |
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The Banque de l'Indochine issued notes for a sprawling range of French territories, and this 1000 Francs is one of the more geographically specific: overprinted or designated for New Caledonia, with Nouméa as the named place of payment. The plate design itself dates to well before the war, and the Banque de France continued printing from it across a remarkably long window — the series ran through 1963, long after most comparable colonial emissions had been retired.
Jonas and Beltrand swapped roles between obverse and reverse — Jonas designed one face, Beltrand engraved it, and vice versa. An unusual reciprocal arrangement between two collaborators who worked together frequently in this period.