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50 Cents
| Issuer | Gouvernement Général de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Size | 104 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | GOUVERNEMENT GÉNÉRAL DE L'INDOCHINE 50 CENTS PAYABLES AU PORTEUR EN INDOCHINE EN ESPÈCES LE TRÉSORIER GÉNÉRAL N° LE DIRECTEUR DES FINANCES G. BARRIÈRE |
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| Signature(s) | signature title at left "Le Trésorier Payeur Général" in two lines - Henry & Cazaux denominations on back in Cambodian, Chinese and Vietnamese (without Lao) signature title at left "Le Trésorier Général" in one line - Mayet & Cazaux denominations on back in Cambodian, Lao, Chinese and Vietnamese signature title at left "Le Trésorier Général" in one line - Mayet & Cousin denominations on back in Cambodian, Lao, Chinese and Vietnamese brown and violet color signature title at left "Le Trésorier Général" in one line - Mayet & Cousin denominations on back in Cambodian, Lao, Chinese and Vietnamese coffee brown color |
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Printed locally at the Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient in Hanoi rather than farmed out to a metropolitan French printer, this note reflects the Gouvernement Général's push toward self-sufficient colonial administration in the late 1930s. The earliest signature combinations used "Le Trésorier Payeur Général" — a title subsequently shortened to "Le Trésorier Général," a bureaucratic adjustment that coincided with wartime administrative restructuring after France fell in 1940.
The back-language progression tells its own story: the Henry & Cazaux variant omits Lao entirely, corrected in later signature pairings. Pick 87b specifically corresponds to the Mayet & Cousin signing with coffee brown coloration, distinguishable from the earlier violet-toned state of the same signature combination.