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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de Madagascar |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | The central vignette presents a stylized zebu, with a second specimen positioned to the right. The surrounding border and decorative panels incorporate geometric motifs drawn from traditional Malagasy aloha textile patterns, lending the composition a distinctly regional artistic character. |
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| Reverse description | The central vignette portrays a woman carrying a basket of fruit, flanked to the left by a resting team of zebus set against a landscape of baobabs and a hilltop village. To the right, men are engaged in loading a pirogue, with a sailing vessel and a ravinala palm rendered in the background. |
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Madagascar remained under Vichy administration until late 1942, when British forces completed their occupation of the island following Operation Ironclad — which means notes of this series were issued under two politically opposed regimes within months of each other. The Banque de Madagascar continued operating through the transition, and the same note designs circulated under both authorities with minimal modification.
Bléger and Forec were a working pair at the Banque de France's printing establishment, and their collaboration appears across multiple French colonial issues of this period. The engraving quality reflects metropolitan French production standards rather than the expedient wartime printing that characterized many occupied-territory issues elsewhere.