Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Francs - Bougainville
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
|---|---|
| Year | 1947-1949 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Multicolour note overprinted GUADELOUPE in the margins, based on the P#20B design originally issued for French Equatorial Africa. At left, a vignette of the three-masted frigate La Boudeuse is rendered in intaglio, while a portrait of French navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville occupies the right side. The issuing authority inscription and denomination are centred in the principal panel, with engraver and designer credits in the lower margin. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | GUADELOUPE CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER CINQ FRANCS LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL BOUGAINVILLE G.A. KLEIN FEC. G. BELTRAND SC. (Translation: Guadeloupe Central Fund of Overseas France Five Francs Bougainville) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | GUADELOUPE CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PENAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIE LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISEES PAR LA LOI G.A. KLEIN FEC. | A.CHAPON SC. (Translation: Guadeloupe 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.) |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments | Log in to see details |