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| 裏面の説明 | Central intaglio vignette of a helmeted Athena holding an olive wreath, flanked by stone lion guardian statues on columned plinths, with a detailed architectural vignette of Angkor Wat temple occupying the right portion of the composition. Chinese and Khmer script denominations are arranged vertically at right, while the Vietnamese inscription appears in a cartouche along the lower margin. The entire design is enclosed within decorative guilloche and foliate architectural borders, with the engraver credit RITA SC. in the lower margin. |
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| バリエーション | P#56a - signatures: De la Chaume & Baudouin Specimens only P#56b - signatures: Borduge & Baudouin |
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Banque de l'Indochine operated as a private colonial bank with note-issuing privileges across French Indochina — a legal arrangement that persisted well past the point where most colonial powers had centralized such authority. This 20 Piastres issue was produced by the Banque de France in Paris, a printing relationship that gave the notes a technical quality far above what colonial administrations typically arranged through commercial security printers.
The Deloche and Piel engraving credits on the obverse plate reflect the Banque de France's in-house atelier, one of the most accomplished intaglio workshops in the world at the time. Marguerite Dreyfus, known professionally as Rita, handled the reverse — her name appears across multiple Banque de France colonial commissions from this period.
Two signature combinations are documented for circulating examples: De la Chaume & Baudouin appears on specimens only.