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20 Francs - Emile Gentil
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 VINGT FRANCS 20 CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER P. MUNIER FEC. BROUTIN SC. (Translation: Twenty Francs - Central Fund of Overseas France) |
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| Reverse lettering | 20 CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER 20 L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI P. MUNIER FEC. MAGD. TISON SC. (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France - Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law.) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established in 1944 specifically to manage currency across French overseas territories as the Free French administration rebuilt financial infrastructure after occupation. This note belongs to the postwar series that circulated across French Equatorial Africa and neighboring territories — the same physical note, distinguished only by overprint or issuing context, served multiple colonial jurisdictions simultaneously.
Émile Gentil was a French colonial officer who navigated the Congo River basin in the 1890s and played a direct role in the military campaigns that brought the Lake Chad region under French control. Broutin's engraving work for the Banque de France is among the most technically accomplished of the period.