20 francs Emile Gentil Type 1946 modified Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon

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Pick: #24 , Other: #K616

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Description

Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon. No date (1946) modified. Emission of 1950. Work of Pierre Munier. Dimensions: 136 x 75 mm. Seamless watermark composed of small boats and anchors. Front and back: multicolored printing. Front: Overprinted "SAINT-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON" in black repeated twice in the margin. The wording and the value "20" in letters and numbers are printed in brown. The numbering and the signature are printed in black. Right, portrait of Emile Gentil, French explorer of the nineteenth century and left, village scene with four characters dressed in a loincloth. One signature: The Director General: A. Postel-Vinay. Back: Young man in bust in front of a landscape with a view on a river. At the bottom of the back right, article 139 of the Penal Code printed in a brown cartridge. Specimen of the issued note numbered O.00 - 00000 with "SPECIMEN" perforated diagonally in the center of the bill. Known proof note. Alphabets often encountered: A.81, B.81, C.81, E.81, L.25 and M.25.

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