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1000 Francs with date
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1943-1944 |
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| Size | 180 × 76 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue, this note is an overprint on the French Indochina P#78 issue, adapted for circulation in New Caledonia. The left vignette carries sculptural figures from the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia, with the overprint text 'EMISSION 1944' applied above the NOUMÉA designation. The face bears the issuing authority legend and legal warning in French, with signature lines for the branch director and an authorized signatory. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE NOUMÉA EMISSION 1944 L'article 139 du Code Pénal punit des travaux forcés ceux qui auront contrefait ou falsifié les billets de banques autorisées par la loi. Mille Francs 1000 LE DIRECTEUR DE LA SUCURSALE. UN FONDE DE POUVOIRS. (Translation: Bank of Indochina Noumea 1944 Issue Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes by forced labor those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorized by law. Thousand Francs. The Director of the Branch. An Authorized Representative.) |
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Banque de l'Indochine's wartime 1000 Francs presents an unusual production situation: the notes were printed in New York by the American Bank Note Company at a time when metropolitan France was under German occupation and the colonial administration in Indochina was operating under Japanese military supervision. The Free French authorities, working from exile, contracted ABNC to maintain currency supply for territories they hoped to reclaim.
Practical distribution was the real problem. Notes printed in New York had limited means of reaching occupied Indochina, and substantial quantities never entered circulation there at all. Surviving examples in genuinely circulated condition are considerably scarcer than their uncirculated counterparts.