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5000 Francs - Gen. Schoelcher

Issuer Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer
Year 1952
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Designer(s) Robert Poughéon
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Obverse description Multicolour intaglio note with a portrait vignette of General Victor Schoelcher positioned at centre right, rendered in the engraved style characteristic of French colonial issues. The note bears a MARTINIQUE overprint in the margins, applied to the base P#27 issue originally prepared for French Equatorial Africa. The denomination 5000 appears in large numerals at left, with the issuing authority legend arcing across the upper margin.
Obverse lettering 5000 CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D`OUTRE-MER MARTINIQUE CINQ MILLE FRANCS R. POUGHEON FEC. J. PIEL - A.MARLIAT SC.
(Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Martinique Five Thousand Francs)
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Reverse lettering 5000 CINQ MILLE FRANCS MARTINIQUE L`ART 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES A PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIE LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D`OUTRE-MER R. POUGHEON FEC. A.MARLIAT SC.
(Translation: Five Thousand Francs Martinique Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with forced labor those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorized by law. Central Fund of Overseas France)
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