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50 Francs - Belain d'Esnambuc
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Value | 50 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | GUYANE CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER 50 CINQUANTE FRANCS GUYANE LE DIRECTEUR GENERAL, BELAIN D'ESNAMBUC W. FEL. FEC. HOURRIEZ SC. (Translation: Guiana Central Fund of Overseas France Fifty Francs Guiana Belain d'Esnambuc) |
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| Reverse lettering | GUYANE CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER 50 GUYANE L'ART 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES A PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI W. FEL. FEC. G. REGNIER SC. (Translation: Guiana Central Fund of Overseas France Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor in perpetuity those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law.) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established in 1944 specifically to manage currency across French overseas territories as liberation-era France rebuilt its colonial financial infrastructure. This 50 Francs note, named for Pierre Belain d'Esnambuc — the Norman merchant who established French settlement on Martinique in 1635 — circulated across the French Antilles, French Guiana, and Réunion simultaneously, a single note serving geographically scattered territories with no monetary connection to one another except French sovereignty.
Hourriez and Régnier were both senior Banque de France engravers, and the quality of intaglio work on this series reflects that institutional pedigree. P#22 is among the more available picks in the CCFOM catalog, though clean examples without the tropical foxing typical of Caribbean circulation are harder to locate than the catalog frequency suggests.