1 Franc emergency postage WWI
Features
| Issuer |
New Caledonia
(Overseas France)  |
|---|---|
| Issuing entity | Trésorerie de Nouméa |
| Period |
French Dependency (1853-1946)
|
| Type | Emergency banknotes |
| Years | 1920-1923 |
| Value | 1 Franc |
| Currency | Franc (1873-1945) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | 61 × 40 mm |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Demonetized | Yes |
| Number | N# 388286 |
| References | P# 26 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes). Jean Lecompte; 2007. Monnaies et jetons des colonies françaises = Coins and Tokens of the French Colonies (2nd Edition). Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco. |
Series: 1914 ND Emergency Postage Stamp Card Issues
Obverse
Dark-blue on green.
Adhesive postal stamp affixed to cardboard.
Sailing ship at center on stamp.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
1f. POSTES RF
NOUVELLE CALEDONIE
ET DEPENDANCES
Translation:
1f. Postage
RF (French Republic)
New Caledonia and Dependences
Designer: Henri Émile Vollet
Reverse
Two round hand-stamped: Treasury and Secretary.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
TRESORIER PAYEUR DE LA NOUVELLE CÁLEDONIE
SECRETARIAT GENERAL
Translation:
Paying Treasurer of New Caledonia
General Secretary
Comments
Between 1914 and 1923, New Caledonia postage stamps were used to make emergency issue currency. The first issues were pieces of cardboard to which stamps were affixed in denominations of 25 and 50 centimes, 1 and 2 francs, with the 50 centime denominations made from either a single 50 centime stamp or a 15 and a 35 centime stamp. The reverse of the cardboard is handstamped with “TRESORIER PAYEUR DE LA NOUVELLE CALEDONIE”, roughly translated as: “PAYABLE BY THE TREASURER OF NEW CALEDONIA”.
See more info in: https://northshorenumismaticsociety.org/new-caledonia-emergency-postage-stamp-money/
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | |||||||||
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| ND (1920-1923) | |||||||||||||||
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