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3 Cents Honquan Plantations
| Issuer | Société des Plantations de Honquan |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Sté des Plantations de Honquan-Cochinchine Ticket pour un achat de 0$03 cents à l'Economat de la Société Un Administrateur, SAIGON, IMP. C. ARDIN & FILS. (Translation: Plantation Company of Honquan, Cochinchina. Ticket for a purchase of 3 cents at the company storehouse. An Administrator. Saigon, C. Ardin & Sons Printers.) |
| Reverse description | Plain paper with faint multicolour guilloche underprint in blue and buff tones, no printed text or vignette. |
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Plantation scrip from French Indochina is rarely documented with this level of provenance. The Société des Plantations de Honquan was a rubber concern operating in Cochinchina, and like most large agricultural enterprises in the colony, it issued its own low-denomination tokens and notes to pay coolies in a closed currency redeemable only at the company store — a system that effectively trapped labor on the estate.
Printed locally by C. Ardin & Fils rather than imported from a metropolitan French printer, which was unusual enough to suggest urgency or cost-cutting. Ardin operated primarily as a commercial job printer in Saigon, not a security printer.