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500 Francs
| Issuer | Trésor Public - Côte Française des Somalis |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Currency | French Somaliland Franc (1949-1967) |
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| Obverse lettering | 500 CÔTE FRANÇAISE DES SOMALIS ጂቡቲ جيبوتي DJIBOUTI CINQ CENT FRANCS TRÉSOR PUBLIC ۵۰۰ LORAIN FEC. ARMANELLI SC. (Translation: French Somaliland. Djibouti. Five hundred francs. Public treasury. 500.) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio print over a multicolour guilloche underprint. The central vignette presents a gazelle (Gazella sp.) in profile facing left, rendered with fine engraved detail against a lightly tinted background. Trilingual anti-counterfeiting warnings in French, Arabic, and Amharic flank the denomination and issuer inscriptions, with the engraver's and designer's credits at lower right. |
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The Trésor Public issues for Côte Française des Somalis occupy an odd corner of French colonial note history — the territory's monetary affairs were administered through Paris rather than through the Banque de l'Indochine, which handled most of France's African and Pacific dependencies at the time. That administrative separation is why these notes carry the Trésor Public imprint rather than the more familiar colonial bank header.
Armanelli and Régnier were both career engravers at the Banque de France's Chamalières atelier, and their work on this series is among the more accomplished of the postwar Trésor Public colonial output. P#27 is notably scarcer than the lower denominations in the set.