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500 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947-1949 |
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| Currency | Franc (1917-1960) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolor intaglio print with dark blue value numerals and text on a light guilloche underprint. At right, a vignette presents a Martinican woman and a Guadeloupean woman posed before the port of Pointe-à-Pitre. Two black GUYANE overprints are applied over a base note originally issued for French Equatorial Africa (P#25), accompanied by black serial numbering and signature. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolor print centred on a vignette of bullock carts transporting sugar cane through a tropical landscape. A black GUYANE overprint appears at upper left and lower right. At the bottom, a yellow cartouche carries the full text of Article 139 of the Penal Code as the statutory counterfeit warning. |
| Reverse lettering | GUYANE CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER 500 L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISE PAR LA LOI. C. SERVEAU FEC. | HOURRIEZ SC. GUYANE (Translation: Guiana Central Fund of Overseas France Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes forced labour those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorized by Law. Five Hundred Francs Guiana) |
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