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1 Franc
| Issuer | Government of Madagascar and Dependencies |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | POSTES 1f. MADAGASCAR ET DÉPENDANCES |
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| Reverse lettering | Iraimbilanja 1 franc |
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Madagascar's wartime small-denomination notes of 1916 were emergency issues prompted by a severe coin shortage — the same disruption that drove dozens of French colonial administrations to paper fractional currency during the First World War. Metropolitan France needed its coinage; the colonies improvised. The Government of Madagascar and Dependencies stepped in as issuer rather than the Banque de Madagascar, which did not yet exist in its later form.
P#11B is distinguished from the closely related 11A by serial number or signature variety — a distinction that matters more to specialists than the difference in face value suggests.