5 Francs Blue type

The Banque de la Martinique was not an independent central bank in any modern sense — it operated under a concession framework tied directly to the Banque de France, which also handled its note production. That relationship explains why this 5 Francs draws so heavily on metropolitan French printing standards, with Robert handling the intaglio work on the face and Wullschleger cutting the reverse.

Harang, who worked under the pseudonym Cabasson, designed for the Banque de France across multiple colonial issues during this period. The same hand appears on notes for Guadeloupe and French Guiana from roughly the same years, making attribution straightforward but individual rarity harder to assess without provenance.