Catalog
2 Francs
| Issuer | Government / Treasury |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Value | 2 Francs |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream field enclosed by a continuous scalloped guilloche border. The denomination DEUX FRANCS is printed in bold sans-serif letterpress within a lightly ruled rectangular panel at centre. Numerals 2 appear at the lower left and lower right corners, the right-hand example accompanied by the word FRANCS in small type. The design is intentionally simple, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Signature(s) | H. Deschamps and L. Geismar |
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The P#8 2 Francs belongs to the wartime Treasury emission for French Guiana, a series issued under the Free French administration after the colony rallied to de Gaulle in 1940. Metropolitan France was under occupation and normal banking channels had collapsed, so the Treasury stepped in with these small-denomination emergency notes — a stopgap that reflects just how severed the colony was from its usual supply of currency.
Deschamps served as Governor of French Guiana; Geismar as the local treasury official. Both signatures are printed, not manuscript.