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100 Piastres
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indo-Chine |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | A standing allegorical Western female figure at left and an elegantly robed Asian man at right flank a large central guilloche vignette bearing the numeral "100", with the date "SAIGON, le 5 Janvier 1920" inscribed below; the composition is executed in intaglio in a blue-violet palette with two manuscript administrator signatures at centre. Designer and engraver credits appear in the lower margin: "h. Bellery Desfontaines del." at left and "L. Ruffe sc." at right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central dragon vignette set within an elaborate wave-pattern underprint and geometric border typical of the Bellery-Desfontaines style, with bands of Chinese-character inscriptions arranged in horizontal registers across the upper portion of the note. A small legal-warning text block in French appears at lower centre, and the engraver credit "E. Gaspe sc." is noted in the lower right margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 壹百元 奉本國特諭 東方滙理銀行 銀壹百元見字交銀 高綿 六省 h. Bellery Desfontaines del. E. Gaspe sc. |
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