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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 8099956, member: 17469&quot;]It&#039;s probably been over a decade that I&#039;ve been looking to complete this set of &quot;Marianne de Walhain&quot; notes, and just recently I was happy to pick up the last of the set.</p><p><br /></p><p>This note was designed by Charles Walhain and engraved by Emile Deloche at Banque de France. The first issue was in 1917 as a 5F French note showing Marianne ready for war on the face, and a dock scene on the back.</p><p><img src="http://www.FrenchBanknotes.com/france/images/f-003-12-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The face art was then used by Banque de l&#039;Indochine in the latter half of the 1920&#039;s for notes in French Indochina, Djibouti, New Caledonia and Tahiti. Marianne sports a more stylish helmet, and the back now has a more traditional geometric design.</p><p><img src="http://www.FrenchBanknotes.com/frprints/images/frindo-P-48b-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.FrenchBanknotes.com/frprints/images/dj-P-6b-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.FrenchBanknotes.com/frprints/images/nc-P-36b-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.FrenchBanknotes.com/frprints/images/tahiti-P-11c-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1941 and 1943, the note was released in New Hebrides and then French Somaliland/Djibouti with Free French overprints.</p><p><img src="http://www.FrenchBanknotes.com/frprints/images/dj-P-11-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="http://www.FrenchBanknotes.com/frprints/images/newheb-P-4b-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is a note from French India that uses the same vignette (and is quite rare), and lots of ephemera can be found as well with the vignette.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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