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50 Centimes emergency postage WWI
| Issuer | Trésorerie de la Nouvelle-Calédonie |
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| Year | 1920-1923 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red-orange letterpress on cardboard. A genuine adhesive postage stamp of the New Caledonia colonial series is affixed to the cardboard backing, bearing a central vignette of a Kanak village. The denomination and issuing authority are inscribed around the stamp vignette in the characteristic typographic style of French colonial postal issues. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cardboard reverse bearing two official hand-applied ink stamps in violet: one circular stamp of the Treasurer-Paymaster of New Caledonia to the left, and a second circular stamp of the General Secretariat to the right, serving as the authenticating authority for this emergency currency issue. |
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| Protection description | Two circular violet hand-applied official ink stamps on reverse: one from the Treasurer-Paymaster and one from the General Secretariat of New Caledonia. |
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