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20 Francs
| Issuer | Trésorerie de Nouméa |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Size | 114 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | The note is enclosed within a border of repeating cross motifs. The central vignette is divided between an industrial mining scene at right and a harbour with a vessel under loading at left. The inscriptions NOUVELLE CALÉDONIE and TRÉSORERIE DE NOUMÉA are printed in black along the upper margin, with the denomination 20 FRANCS also appearing on the face. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is set against a ground of stylised floral guilloche work, with a central vignette of a deer's head. Above the vignette, the legend BON DE CAISSE and its English equivalent CASH VOUCHER appear alongside the Lorraine cross; a right-hand panel carries the denomination in words with the inscriptions TRÉSORERIE and NOUMÉA, while a left-hand panel reproduces the relevant article of the penal code. Below the central vignette, a black inscription records the Décret du 20 Avril 1943. |
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The Trésorerie de Nouméa issues of 1943 were emergency wartime instruments produced after New Caledonia rallied to the Free French cause in September 1940. With normal banking channels severed and the colony's monetary supply dangerously thin, locally authorized treasury notes filled the gap while the broader Pacific franc system was reconstructed under Allied-aligned institutions.
P#57 is among the more elusive of the Nouméa wartime pieces — the short print run and the colony's small population meant few notes entered circulation in any volume, and survivors in collectible condition are genuinely uncommon rather than artificially scarce.