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5 Francs - Bougainville
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Georges Léon Égalité Beltrand Reverse: Auguste Chapon |
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| Obverse lettering | CAISSE CENTRALE DE LA FRANCE D'OUTRE-MER CINQ FRANCS BOUGAINVILLE G. A. KLEIN FEC. G. BELTRAND SC. (Translation: Central Fund of Overseas France Five Francs Bougainville) |
| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio composition centred on a traditionally dressed indigenous woman seated at left with a wicker basket of tropical fruits before her, while a colonial building set among palm trees against a mountainous landscape occupies the right field. A central text panel carries the statutory anti-counterfeiting notice, with the designer's and engraver's credits printed at the lower corners. |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer issued this note for circulation across a remarkably broad range of French overseas territories — the same P#20B type circulated in places as geographically removed from each other as French Guiana, Réunion, and Martinique. That breadth was the point: the CCFOM was created in 1944 specifically to unify and manage currency across France's colonial empire during postwar reconstruction, replacing the patchwork of pre-war issuing authorities.
Beltrand was a distinguished engraver whose work appeared across multiple Banque de France productions; Chapon's reverse engraving is the lesser-discussed contribution to this note but technically accomplished.