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1 Franc
| Issuer | Government / Treasury |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of an elephant head in yellow-ochre tint, set against a pale ground flanked by vertical guilloche borders in blue-green on both sides. The denomination numeral "1" appears at upper left and upper right. Two facsimile signatures appear below the central vignette, attributed to the Gouverneur and the Trésorier-Payeur. A serial number is printed in blue at lower left, with the denomination legend "UN FRANC" in bold at lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured ground covered with a repeated underprint of small human figures forming a fine texture across the entire surface. Six oval cartouches each bearing the numeral "1" are arranged in two rows of three. A bold blue-green guilloche border of linked leaf-shaped elements frames the perimeter, and the central legend "UN FRANC" is printed in large bold blue-green letterpress text across the middle. |
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| Signature(s) | H. Deschamps and L. Gelsmar |
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