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| 正面铭文 | Décrets des 21 Janvier 1875 et du 20 Février 1888 BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE Nouméa, le 13 OCTOBRE 1888. VINGT FRANCS PAYABLE EN ESPÈCES AU PORTEUR Specimen (Translation: Decrees of January 21, 1875 and February 20, 1888 Bank of Indo-China Noumea, October 13th., 1888. Twenty Francs payable in cash to bearer) |
| 背面描述 | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse bears two large circular guilloche medallions as the dominant compositional elements, flanked by elaborate dragon vignettes in an ornate intaglio arrangement. The denomination 20 FRANCS appears at lower left and lower right, with the bank name repeated across the lower register as an underprint. Two blocks of text citing Article 139 of the Penal Code and the credits of the designers and engraver are placed at the foot of the note. |
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The Banque de l'Indo-Chine was chartered in 1875 with exclusive rights to issue currency across French Indochina, and this 1888 note belongs to the earliest years when that monopoly was still being tested against a population with deep preference for Chinese copper cash and Mexican silver pesos. The 20 Francs denomination was awkward in practice — the franc-based system mapped poorly onto local commercial habits, and for much of this period the notes circulated primarily among European merchants and colonial administrators rather than through indigenous trade networks.
Bramtot and Duval were both associated with the French academic tradition, and Wullschleger's engraving work here reflects the high-intaglio conventions of late nineteenth-century French colonial printing. Notes from this issue are genuinely rare; survival rates are low even by the standards of nineteenth-century tropical paper, humidity being the obvious culprit.