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20 Francs - Emile Gentil
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1950-1960 |
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| Value | 20 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON 20 VINGT FRANCS LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL, SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON EMILE.GENTIL CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER P. MUNIER FEC. BROUTIN SC. (Translation: Saint Pierre and Miquelon Twenty Francs The General Director Central Fund of Overseas France) |
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| Reverse lettering | SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER 20 SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON 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: Saint Pierre and Miquelon 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 not a colonial central bank in the conventional sense — it was a Paris-controlled financing institution established in 1944 to manage currency and credit across French overseas territories, replacing the older colonial banks that had issued their own notes. This 20 Francs note circulated across multiple territories under the same series, with the destination determined by overprint rather than a separate printing run.
Broutin and Tison were both staff engravers at the Banque de France's Note Printing Works, and Emile Gentil — the French explorer and administrator who helped consolidate French control over the Chad basin in the 1890s — was still considered an acceptable figurehead for colonial currency well into the 1950s.