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20 Francs Black text
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1928-1938 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | DJIBOUTI 20 FR عشرون فرانكس ሃያ ፍራንክ ፳ فرانكس ۲۰ L`ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PENAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÈS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉE PAR LA LOI. ROQUE FEC. RITA SC. (Translation: Twenty francs. 20. Article 139 of the penal code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeit or falsified banknotes authorized by law.) |
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| Protection description | Native's head in profile. |
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Banque de l'Indo-Chine issued several closely related 20 Francs types across this period, and P#7B is distinguished primarily by its black text — a detail that separates it from the earlier blue-text variant (P#7A) rather than signaling any fundamental redesign. The plates were prepared by the Banque de France's own printing workshops in Paris, which handled colonial currency with the same technical standards applied to metropolitan French issues.
Ernest Deloche was a prolific Banque de France engraver; Marguerite Dreyfus, who signed her work as "Rita," was among the relatively few women engravers working at that level in interwar Paris.