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50 Nouveaux Francs
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1963 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | Right-hand vignette presents busts of a woman in traditional Caribbean head-wrap and a man in a broad-brimmed straw hat, both rendered in vivid intaglio against a calm tropical coastal landscape with palm trees and a colonial dwelling to the left. The denomination "CINQUANTE NOUVEAUX FRANCS" is lettered across the centre in guilloché underprint. A legal warning text in French appears at lower left, with the issuing authority inscription along the lower border. |
| Reverse lettering | DÉPARTEMENT DE LA GUADELOUPE DÉPARTEMENT DE LA GUYANE DÉPARTEMENT DE LA MARTINIQUE RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE CINQUANTE NOUVEAUX FRANCS 50 NF INSTITUT D'ÉMISSION DES DÉPARTEMENTS D'OUTRE-MER L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DE LA RÉCLUSION CRIMINELLE QUICONQUE AURA CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉS PAR LA LOI |
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The Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer was created in 1959 to handle currency for France's overseas departments — Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, and Guiana — following the constitutional transition that converted those territories from colonies into full departments. This note, printed by the Banque de France, circulated across four geographically dispersed territories sharing a single currency authority, an administratively unusual arrangement that persisted for decades before each territory eventually came under the euro.
The "Nouveaux Francs" designation dates this issue precisely: the redenomination took effect January 1960, and the NF labeling was officially dropped in France itself by 1963 — yet overseas issues continued using it into the mid-1960s.