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5 Francs without decrees

Issuer Banque de l'Indo-Chine
Year 1920-1923
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Designer(s) Designers: Jean-Baptiste-Daniel Dupuis, Georges Duval
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Obverse lettering BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE PAPEETE (TAHITI), le 2 Janvier 1920. CINQ FRANCS PAYABLES EN MONNAIE LOCALE AU PORTEUR Un Administrateur : L`Admr-Directeur, DANIEL DUPUIS ET GEORGES DUVAL FEC A LEVEILLE SC
(Translation: Bank of Indochina Papeete (Tahiti), January 2nd., 1920. Five Francs payable in cash to bearer An administrator , The Director)
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Reverse lettering BANQUE DE L`INDO-CHINE L`ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI, AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS. DANIEL DUPUIS ET GEORGES DUVAL FEC
(Translation: Bank of Indochina. Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor in perpetuity those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law, as well as those who have made use of these counterfeited or falsified notes.)
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The Banque de France printed this series for Indochina under an arrangement that allowed the colonial issuer to draw on metropolitan printing infrastructure — the same workshops responsible for French domestic currency. Dupuis had died in 1900, meaning his contribution was an earlier design adapted for colonial reuse rather than a fresh commission. Léveillé's intaglio work is typically precise, but the interest here is administrative: this type was issued without the decree citations that normally appeared on Indochinese notes, making it the only series in the bank's early output to omit that legal reference entirely.

The absence of decree text was corrected in subsequent printings.

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