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1000 Francs Chazal
| Issuer | Banque de Madagascar |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the two oval cartouche areas positioned on either side of the note |
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Chazal's design for this series dates to the early colonial consolidation period, when the Banque de Madagascar — established in 1925 — needed a high-denomination note that projected institutional authority quickly. The Banque de France stepped in as printer, which was standard practice for French colonial banks lacking their own intaglio facilities, and brought Wiesener in to handle the engraving.
Charles Camille Chazal was a prolific designer of French colonial currency across multiple territories in this period; his work is recognizable to specialists by its compositional conventions, though individual series vary considerably in execution quality. Wiesener's intaglio work on the 1000 Franc denomination is notably finer than on the lower values in the same issue.