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5 Francs - Bougainville
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1950-1960 |
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| Currency | Franc (1945-1960) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed in blue and multicolour on a fine guilloche underprint. To the right, a portrait vignette of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, the French navigator and explorer; to the left, a vignette of the sailing frigate La Boudeuse under full sail. Denomination numerals and issuer inscriptions are set within the underprint, with engraver and designer credits at the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer used a single note design across multiple territories simultaneously — the same P#22 type circulated in French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, differentiated only by overprint or decree text. This multi-territory approach was a deliberate postwar administrative consolidation, not a printing economy measure.
Beltrand was among the most technically accomplished intaglio engravers working at the Banque de France atelier during this period. Chapon handled the reverse plate separately — a division of labor common to Banque de France production but worth noting given how unified the finished note appears.