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50 Francs - Belain d'Esnambuc
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio composition centred on a seated indigenous woman adorned with beaded necklaces and a wrapped head-covering, positioned at left before a thatched native hut. To the right, a decorative architectural vignette is framed by lush tropical foliage, with a cartouche carrying the anti-counterfeiting legal warning text. Denomination numerals '50' appear in each upper corner above the issuer title, with engraver and designer credits in the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established in 1944 to handle currency for French overseas territories after liberation, replacing the older colonial issuing bodies. This 50 Francs note, printed at the Banque de France's Paris workshops, circulated across multiple territories simultaneously — the same P#23 type served Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Réunion, distinguished only by the overprint or local authorization stamp applied at point of distribution.
Belain d'Esnambuc, the Norman adventurer who established the first permanent French settlement on Martinique in 1635, was a recurring honorific figure in French Caribbean note design of this period. Hourriez and Régnier were both staff engravers at the Banque de France with credits across numerous colonial issues of the 1940s.