Could someone please look this up in the SCWPM catalog and tell me about this? I have read in my catalogs that it was an emergency issue and about 50,000 were printed, but I have found some similar ones on the net with serial numbers in the 70,000s plus they have a comma in the number were mine does not. Clearer Images here: http://r3.myphotos.cc/ww2-study/All... New Caledonia Twenty Francs 1943 Obverse.jpg http://r3.myphotos.cc/ww2-study/All... New Caledonia Twenty Francs 1943 Reverse.jpg The following is an image I found on BankNotes.com If you look on the obverse there isnt a date, just the year, 1943. But on the rear it has teh April 1943 date on it, but underneath has something written on it. Could someone translate or look it up in the catalog?
There seem to be quite a few crisp uncirculateds hitting the market in the past couple of years - I have seen them on Heritage and fleaBay and wonder that someone came across a cache of them.
There are two different issues of the 20 franc note. The one you have shown is from the first issue. The second issue says Deuxieme Emission (Second Issue) on the back. There were 50,000 in each issue and they were numbered sequentially so the second issue should be numbered 50,001-100,000.
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