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5 Francs - Bougainville
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Georges Léon Égalité Beltrand Reverse: Auguste Chapon |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed multicolour vignette with the three-masted frigate La Boudeuse under sail at left, paired with a portrait bust of French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville at right, rendered against a fine guilloche underprint. The denomination numeral appears in each upper corner, and the issuer's title runs along the upper border. Designer and engraver credits appear in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI G. A. KLEIN FEC. A. CHAPON SC. (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law.) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer issued this note for circulation across a remarkably broad range of French overseas territories — the same P#20B type circulated in places as geographically removed from each other as French Guiana, Réunion, and Martinique. That breadth was the point: the CCFOM was created in 1944 specifically to unify and manage currency across France's colonial empire during postwar reconstruction, replacing the patchwork of pre-war issuing authorities.
Beltrand was a distinguished engraver whose work appeared across multiple Banque de France productions; Chapon's reverse engraving is the lesser-discussed contribution to this note but technically accomplished.