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50 Nouveaux Francs
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a young man in the foreground carrying a large bunch of bananas, with additional harvest workers in the middle ground against a backdrop of lush tropical foliage. To the left, a harbour scene with a large ocean liner, dock cranes, and cargo vehicles rendered in a detailed intaglio style. Two signature panels appear at upper left beneath the denomination inscription, with serial number and letter prefix printed in red at lower left and upper right. |
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| Obverse 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 LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL LE PRÉSIDENT DU CONSEIL DE SURVEILLANCE |
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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.