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5000 Francs - Gen. Schoelcher
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note with an intaglio portrait vignette of General Victor Schoelcher positioned at centre right, rendered in the engraved style characteristic of Poughéon's work for the Caisse Centrale series. The denomination 5000 is repeated in the lower corners, with the issuer's title and territorial overprint GUADELOUPE applied to the margins. This note is an overprint on the P#27 issue originally prepared for French Equatorial Africa. |
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| Reverse lettering | 5000 CINQ MILLE FRANCS GUADELOUPE L'ART 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES A PERPÉTUITÉ CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ 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 Guadeloupe Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes with perpetual forced labour those who have counterfeited or falsified bank notes authorised by law. Central Fund of Overseas France) |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer issued this note for use across French overseas territories — a single denomination circulating through wildly different economies simultaneously, from the Antilles to French Guiana. Victor Schoelcher, the French abolitionist who drafted the 1848 decree ending slavery in French colonies, lends his name to the series. Naming a high-denomination colonial currency note after him carries an irony the issuing authority appeared entirely comfortable with.
Robert Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate and established academic painter, an unusual choice for banknote design work. Jules Piel was among the Banque de France's most accomplished intaglio engravers of the mid-century, and the quality of the plate work here reflects that.