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20 Dollars / 20 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1876-1892 |
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| Engraver(s) | Charles Wullschleger |
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| Obverse description | Tall elephant-column vignettes frame the left and right margins, while the lower centre presents an allegorical group of reclining female figures accompanied by an ox and a tiger. The design, executed in intaglio by Charles Wullschleger after compositions by Bramtot and Duval, is enclosed within ornate guilloche borders. Bilingual legends in French and English identify the issuing branch at Saigon and state the note's payable-to-bearer obligation. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by an intricate guilloche pattern forming a large central oval medallion, surrounded by dense microtext border panels repeated in a grid arrangement. Chinese characters appear in each corner panel and along the lateral margins, providing the denomination and issuer details in script for circulation in Chinese-speaking communities. The overall design is executed in a single pale blue-grey intaglio print with no pictorial vignette, relying entirely on fine-line geometric and typographic security elements. |
| Reverse lettering | 二十元 二十圓 仁義禮智 有財用 |
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