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100 Piastres Violet frame
| Issuer | Banque de l'Indochine |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient, Hanoi, French Indochina (1939-1945) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio-printed violet and green vignette with a lively market scene extending across both the left and right panels, rendered in a detailed academic style with indigenous figures carrying goods and baskets; the denomination CENT PIASTRES appears in large central letterpress text within a guilloche underprint. The bank title BANQUE DE L'INDOCHINE runs along the top, with three signature panels at the lower centre designating the Directeur Général, the Caissier de la Succursale, and the Directeur de la Succursale de Saïgon; the engraver's credit G. BARRIÈRE DEL. & SC. and printer's imprint IDEO. HANOI appear at the lower margins. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE CENT PIASTRES G. BARRIÈRE DEL & SC. IDEO. HANOI L'DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL LE CAISSIER DE LA SUCCURSALE LE DIRECTEUR DE LA SUCCURSALE DE SAÏGON |
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Printed locally in Hanoi under Japanese occupation, this note was produced by the Imprimerie d'Extrême-Orient because the normal supply chain from Metropolitan France had been severed. The Banque de l'Indochine continued issuing currency under Vichy authority until the Japanese coup of 9 March 1945 — the coup de force that dismantled French administrative control overnight — after which remaining stocks became operationally and politically awkward.
The reverse credit to Phạm Ngọc Khuê is notable: local Vietnamese engravers contributing to colonial banknote production was unusual enough to warrant attention, and his involvement reflects the practical necessity of relying on Hanoi-based talent once metropolitan resources were inaccessible.