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5 Francs - Bougainville
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | GUYANE CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D`OUTRE-MER CINQ FRANCS LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL BOUGAINVILLE G. A. KLEIN FEC. G. BELTRAND SC. (Translation: Guiana Central Fund of Overseas France Five Francs The Director General Bougainville) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse, likewise overprinted GUYANE in the margins on the French Equatorial Africa P#20B host note. A female figure is depicted at left, with agricultural produce and a rural dwelling at right. The standard penal code warning against counterfeiting appears in full across the lower register, flanked by the designer's and engraver's credits. |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established in 1944 specifically to handle currency for French overseas territories liberated from Vichy-aligned or occupied administrations — this 5 Francs was part of the first postwar effort to normalize monetary circulation across those territories. The same Bougainville design series was issued with different overprints and color variants for different regions, making the issuing context more significant than the denomination itself.
Beltrand was among the most respected intaglio engravers working at the Banque de France during this period, and Chapon's reverse work is characteristically tight. Klein designed across multiple CCFOM issues in the mid-1940s.