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50 Francs
| Issuer | Trésor Public - Côte Française des Somalis |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Pierre Dubreuil Reverse: Gilbert Poilliot |
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| Obverse description | Yellow and blue intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint, with denomination and issuer text rendered in red. A vignette of a boat appears at right, with the watermark reserve zone positioned at lower left. Inscriptions appear in three scripts — French, Arabic, and Amharic — with black typeset serial numbers. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The central vignette shows a group of camels (Camelus sp.) facing right. Trilingual legends in French, Arabic, and Amharic surround the design, including the standard anti-counterfeiting warning text. |
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The Trésor Public issues for Côte Française des Somalis were a short-lived administrative arrangement — the territory switched to Banque de France-affiliated notes before eventually coming under the Banque de l'Indochine's oversight for the region. This 1952 series occupied an awkward transitional moment in French colonial monetary administration, printed by the Banque de France's own workshops in Paris using the same technical standards applied to metropolitan notes.
Dubreuil and Poilliot were both accomplished intaglio engravers whose names appear across multiple French overseas territory issues of the period. William Fel as designer is less frequently credited in surviving documentation, making P#25 a minor point of interest for researchers tracking French colonial printing attribution.