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20 Francs With Decree
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1910-1913 |
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| Value | 20 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Bicolour note printed in blue and red, centred on an intaglio vignette of Neptune reclining and holding a trident at lower left, set within elaborate guilloche work and decorative cartouches bearing the issuer name and denomination. The face carries four decree dates in letterpress, the branch city and full date of issue, and the payable-to-bearer clause rendered in French. Three manuscript or printed signatures appear below the principal inscriptions. |
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| Reverse lettering | L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS A PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI, AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTRE-FAITS OU FALSIFIÉS ; CEUX QUI LES AURONT INTRODUITS SUR LE TERRITOIRE FRANÇAISE SERONT PUNIS DE LA MÊME PEINE. 20 FRANCS BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE A-BRAMTOT ET G. DUVAL. FEC CH-WULLSCHLEGER. SC (Translation: Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor for life those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law, as well as those who will have made use of such counterfeit or falsified notes; those who will have introduced them onto French territory shall be punished with the same penalty. 20 Francs. Bank of Indo-China. A. Bramtot and G. Duval, designers. Ch. Wullschleger, engraver.) |
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Bramtot supplied the allegorical design, Duval handled the ornamental framework, and Wullschleger — one of the Banque de France's most technically accomplished engravers of the period — cut the intaglio plates. The collaboration was unusual; most Indochina issues of this era came from a single artistic hand. The note's title references the decree authorization printed on its face, a legal formality required under French colonial banking law that distinguished this series from earlier emission types.
Pick 16 is notoriously difficult to find with intact margins; the paper stock used for Indochina issues of this window tends to brown unevenly along fold lines, a known consequence of the humidity conditions in which most circulated.