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| Uitgever | Gouvernement Général de l'Afrique Occidentale Française - Colonie de la Guinée Française |
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| Jaar | 1920 |
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| Graveur(s) | Jules-Jacques Puyplat |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain green cardboard reverse bearing the denomination 0 f 10 set within a vertically oriented ornate cartouche of scrollwork and foliate guilloche arabesques, printed in dark ink at centre. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | 0 f 10 |
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| Opmerkingen |
French Guinea's 1920 emergency cardboard issues came out of a genuine small-change crisis — the withdrawal of metal coinage during and after the First World War left West African colonial economies without viable low-denomination currency. The Gouvernement Général authorized individual colonies to produce their own stopgaps, and Guinea's series was among the more modest in circulation volume.
La Nézière was a genuine specialist in West African subjects, having spent years in the region before his career as an illustrator — his involvement here was not incidental. Puyplat's engraving work was closely associated with French colonial printing of this period. Cardboard examples from this series are notoriously fragile; surviving specimens with intact edges are genuinely uncommon.