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2½ Francs Maison du Colon
| Issuer | Maison du Colon |
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| Year | 1942-1944 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain pink paper chit with black letterpress text arranged in four centred lines. A zigzag-cut left border provides the sole decorative element. No vignette or underprint is present. |
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| Obverse lettering | A. O. C. CHIT 2½ FRANCS 2½ Food or Liquor SERIES 1 |
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Maison du Colon was a colonial trading house operating in French West Africa, and notes like this one fall into the category of emergency commercial scrip rather than government-issued currency — produced by private merchants to address the acute small-denomination shortage that gripped the region after Vichy France's metropolitan supply chains collapsed. The pink paper distinguishes this denomination within the series and was a deliberate practical choice, not an aesthetic one.
These notes circulated in a very confined geographic and commercial radius, essentially functioning as store credit that the local population was often left with no practical option but to accept.