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2.50 Francs Doany leprosarium
| Issuer | Léproserie Municipale de Doany |
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| Year | 1921-1950 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Yellow paper voucher with a circular black letterpress inscription arranged around the central denomination. The legend reads "LÈPROSERIE MUNICIPALE DE DOANY" in a circular band, enclosing the bold numeral "2" with superscript "F" and subscript "50" at centre. |
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| Obverse lettering | LÈPROSERIE MUNICIPALE DE DOANY 2,50 F (Translation: Doany Municipal Leprosarium.) |
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Doany is a small locality in northern Madagascar, and the leprosarium there — like several others on the island during the French colonial period — issued its own internal scrip to restrict the movement of money in and out of the patient colony. The logic was both epidemiological and administrative: currency that had passed through a leprosy settlement was considered a contagion risk, and segregating the local economy was the simplest solution colonial health authorities could implement.
The yellow paper is not incidental — color-coding by denomination was the norm across Madagascar's leprosarium issues, allowing illiterate patients and staff alike to distinguish values at a glance. The Doany series is among the more obscure of these issues and rarely surfaces in collections outside Madagascar itself.