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0,25 Franc
| Issuer | Government of Madagascar and Dependencies |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | ¼ Franc |
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| Obverse description | The obverse reproduces the design of the Madagascar et Dépendances postal stamp, printed in blue and olive-black. The central vignette shows Malagasy workers transporting goods on a pole across a river or paddy field, with a townscape in the background rendered in fine line engraving. A guilloche border in blue frames the composition, with the denomination '25c.' displayed in a white panel at the lower centre and the inscription 'MADAGASCAR ET DÉPENDANCES' along the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | POSTES R F MADAGASCAR ET DÉPENDANCES 25c. |
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Madagascar's smallest wartime fractional note, issued when the colony faced a severe coin shortage that affected most French territories during WWI. The metropolitan government authorized a range of low-denomination emergency paper issues — bons de caisse — across its colonial holdings when silver and bronze coinage dried up due to wartime metal demands in France.
Turlot's engraving credit is one of the few hard facts linking this issue to a specific craftsman. Whether he worked in Paris or locally is not established in the standard references.