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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 | Multicolour intaglio note overprinted LA RÉUNION in the upper and lower margins, applied to the P#20B French Equatorial Africa issue. A vignette of the three-masted frigate La Boudeuse under sail occupies the left field, while an engraved portrait of the explorer Louis Antoine de Bougainville appears at right. Denomination numeral 5 is printed in blue at both upper corners against a fine guilloche underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA REUNION CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D`OUTRE-MER CINQ FRANCS LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL BOUGAINVILLE LA REUNION G. A. KLEIN FEC. G. BELTRAND SC. (Translation: Reunion Central Fund of Overseas France Five Francs Bougainville Reunion) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour vignette engraved by Auguste Chapon, with a seated woman in traditional dress and jewellery at left, a wicker basket of tropical fruits including pineapple in the centre foreground, and a colonial plantation house amid palm trees and cultivated fields at right, with a volcanic mountain rising in the background. The counterfeiting warning text is set within a panel at centre-lower, and the issuer title LA RÉUNION appears in the upper and lower margins. |
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