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5 Francs - Bougainville
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947-1949 |
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| Value | 5 Francs |
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| 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. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse, equally overprinted GUADELOUPE in the margins, with a seated female allegorical figure at left and a vignette of agricultural produce and a tropical dwelling at right, evoking the colonial overseas territories. The statutory anti-counterfeiting warning, citing Article 139 of the Penal Code, runs across the lower portion of the note, flanked by the designer and engraver credits. |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established in 1944 specifically to manage currency across French overseas territories during and after the postwar reconstruction period, replacing the various colonial banking arrangements disrupted by the occupation. This 5 Francs Bougainville note circulated across multiple territories simultaneously — the same Pick 31 type served French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, among others — a deliberate centralizing measure that collapsed distinct colonial monetary identities into a single instrument.
Beltrand and Chapon were both senior Banque de France engravers with long intaglio pedigrees. Klein designed across several CCFOM issues in this period.