10 francs Colbert Type 1946 French Guiana

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Pick: #20 , The Banknote Book: B404 , Other: #K222

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Description

Bank of Guyana. No date (1946). Issued note in 1946. Work of Pierre Munier. Dimensions: 122 x 66 mm. Seamless watermark composed of small boats and anchors. 487,055 issued notes. Front and back: multicolored printing. Front: the word "GUYANA" repeated three times in the margin and the value "10" are printed in red. Numbering and signature printed in black. Left, portrait of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Finance and Secretary of State of the Navy of Louis XIV and right a fleet of commercial boats on the ocean. One signature: The Director General: A. Postel-Vinay. Back: lush exotic landscape and a view of a river on which a pirogue sails. At the bottom of the back right, article 139 of the Penal Code printed in a light blue cartouche. Specimen of the issued note numbered O.00 - 00000 with "SPECIMEN" diagonally perforated in the center of the note and two damp pads black and vertical on the sides. 

Banknotes :Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer (1946-1955)