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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Jules Piel, André Marliat Reverse: André Marliat |
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| Obverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER CINQ MILLE FRANCS R. POUGHEON FEC. J. PIEL - A. MARLIAT SC. (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Five Thousand Francs) |
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| Reverse lettering | CINQ MILLE FRANCS L'ART. 139 DU CODE PENAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉS PAR LA LOI CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER R. POUGHEON FEC. A. MARLIAT SC. (Translation: Five Thousand Francs Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labour those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorised by Law. Central Fund of Overseas France) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer operated as a centralized issuing authority serving France's scattered overseas territories simultaneously — the same note types circulated across jurisdictions as different as Guadeloupe, Réunion, and French Guiana, their purchasing power governed locally but their printing handled entirely in Paris by the Banque de France. At the 5000 Franc denomination, these were high-value instruments in territories where most daily transactions involved far smaller sums.
Robert Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate and academic painter whose work for French colonial currency spanned several decades. Jules Piel's engraving work appears frequently in Banque de France productions of this period, often in collaboration with Marliat, who handled both faces here.