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5 Cents Honquan Plantations
| Issuer | Société des Plantations de Honquan |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a yellow underprint, within a simple decorative border. The face bears the issuer's title at top, the denomination in large figures centrally, and the redemption clause below, followed by a manuscript administrator's signature. Printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | Sté des Plantations de Honquan-Cochinchine Ticket pour un achat de 0 $ 05 cents a l'Economat de la Société Un Administrateur SAIGON, IMP. C. ARDIN & FILS. (Translation: Plantation Company of Honquan, Cochinchina. Ticket for a purchase of 5 cents at the company storehouse. An Administrator. Saigon, C. Ardin & Sons Printers.) |
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Société des Plantations de Honquan was a French rubber plantation concern operating in Cochinchina, and like many colonial agricultural enterprises of the period, it issued its own low-denomination scrip to pay — and effectively trap — its workforce within a closed economy. These plantation tokens carried no legal tender status beyond the issuing estate.
Imprimerie C. Ardin & Fils was the principal commercial printer in Saigon during the colonial period, producing everything from administrative forms to this kind of necessity currency. Their output was functional rather than fine.