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20 Francs Succursale de Nouméa
| Issuer | Compagnie de la Nouvelle-Calédonie |
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| Year | 1874 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie Chaix, Paris, France (1845-1965) |
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| Obverse lettering | SUCCURSALE DE NOUMÉA A COMPAGNIE DE LA NOUVELLE-CALÉDONIE / BANQUE Il sera payé à vue et au porteur VINGT FRANCS★ NOUMEA, 28 DECEMBRE, 1874 20 20 UN ADMINISTRATEUR LE DIRECTEUR (Translation: Noumea Branch / New Caledonia Company Bank — It will be paid on sight and to bearer Twenty Francs — Noumea, 28 December 1874 — An Administrator — The Director) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in mirror image (verso impression visible through the thin paper), presenting the same green guilloche underprint, scrollwork border, and central letterpress text as the obverse, reflecting the single-sided printing technique typical of colonial promissory notes of this era. |
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The Compagnie de la Nouvelle-Calédonie was a short-lived colonial trading company granted banking privileges in New Caledonia during the early years of French settlement — a period when the territory was simultaneously being developed as a penal colony and a nickel-mining frontier. Private issue money of this type filled the vacuum left by the absence of any formal colonial bank, which wouldn't arrive until the Banque de la Nouvelle-Calédonie was established years later.
Imprimerie Chaix, a respected Paris commercial printer, produced the plates. The Nouméa branch designation on the note distinguishes it from any metropolitan issue and signals that this denomination circulated specifically within the territorial economy, not in France.
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