About :#28 - 5000 francs Antillean Type 1955

Bank of Guyana. No date (1955). Issued note in 1956. Work of Robert Poughéon. Dimensions: 196 x 107 mm. Watermark with west Indian head profile left. 120,637 issued notes. Front and back: multicolored printing. Front: The word "GUYANA" is repeated in red and continuously in the margin around the note. The title is printed in dark blue and the values ​​"5000" in gray. Numbering and signature are printed in black. In the center, a west Indian woman presents a basket of fruits in front of a group of palm trees on the left. One signature: The Director General: A. Postel-Vinay. Back: group of people in full harvest of sugar cane. At the bottom left, article 139 of the Penal Code is printed in a gray cartridge. Specimen of the issued note numbered O.00 - 000 with "SPECIMEN" diagonally perforated and two damp black pads in the upper corners. Number range of issued notes: 1 to 125,000. The issued note is very rare to find: only 4411 copies remained outstanding in December 1973. Only one banknote found: J.4-524. Very rare !