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2 Francs
| Issuer | Trésor Colonial de Guadeloupe |
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| Year | 1884 |
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| Value | 2 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | GUADELOUPE ET DÉPENDANCES TRÉSOR COLONIAL (Décret du 18 Août 1884.) DEUX FRANCS N° Le Secrétaire Général Le Trésorier Payeur LA CONTRE-VALEUR EN ESPÈCES EST DÉPOSÉE AU TRÉSOR (Translation: Guadeloupe and Dependencies / Colonial Treasury / (Decree of 18 August 1884.) / Two Francs / No. / The Secretary General / The Treasurer Payer / The cash equivalent is deposited in the Treasury.) |
| Reverse description | Uniface note; the reverse is unprinted and plain, with the text watermark GUADELOUPE visible in large block letters across the centre when viewed from this side, appearing in mirror image as seen through the paper. |
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The Trésor Colonial de Guadeloupe issued this note under a system that kept French Caribbean territories financially semi-detached from metropolitan France — colonial treasury notes circulated locally in place of Banque de France instruments, which were not legal tender in the islands. The 2 Francs denomination was a workhorse unit aimed squarely at day-to-day transactions in a plantation economy still adjusting to wage labor following the 1848 abolition of slavery.
P#3 is scarce. The 1884 colonial treasury series for Guadeloupe was never printed in large volume, and tropical humidity — always the enemy of low-denomination paper — claimed most of what circulated.