Rita

B123a face
B123a face
Algeria
B123a (
  • MK2a
  • P-77a
) 5 Francs Muslim Girl
Veiled Algerian woman at Port d'Algers, Amirauté Lighhouse
  • Printer: BdF
  • 7/28/1933
  • 127 x 88mm
  • Sig 4
  • Verification number at upper center

  • Watermark: Moorish Woman's head in profile

B137b face
B137b face
Algeria
B137b (
  • MK5b
  • P-94b
) 5 Francs Muslim Girl
Veiled Algerian woman at Port d'Algers, Amirauté Lighhouse
  • 10/2/1944
  • 98 x 60mm
  • Sig 2

B136b face
B136b face
French Indochina
B136b (
  • KM146b
  • P-49b
) 5 Piastres Woman
Peacock, Butterflies
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1926)
  • 180 x 90mm
  • Buff paper

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile


  • Rita SC
  • Roque FEC
  • (B)
B138d face
B138d face
French Indochina
B138d (
  • KM154d
  • P-51d
) 100 Piastre Dupleix
Incense Burner; Bust of Joseph-François Dupleix
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1936-39)
  • 214 x 146mm
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile
  • Rita SC
  • Roque FEC
  • (F)
B143b face
B143b face
French Indochina
B143b (
  • KM152b
  • P-56b
) 20 Piastres Athena with Oak Crown
Khmer Temple
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1936-39)
  • 160 x 85mm
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Mercury

B144 face
B144 face
French Indochina
B144 (
  • KM157
  • P-57
) 500 Piastre Education: Woman, Child & Globe
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1939-)
  • 190 x 103mm
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Mercury

B165a face
B165a face
French Indochina
B165a (
  • KM153
  • P-81a
) 20 Piastre Athena with Oak Crown
Khmer Temple
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1949)
  • 160 x 85mm
  • Sig 9b

  • Watermark: Mercury

B166b face
B166b face
French Indochina
B166b (
  • KM156
  • P-82b
) 100 Piastre Mercury
Elephants
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1949-54)
  • 175 x 89mm
  • Sig 9b
  • New Lao text

  • Watermark: Man's head in profile

B144 face
B144 face
French Indochina
B144 (
  • KM157
  • P-57
) 500 Piastre Woman and Child examining Globe
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1939-)
  • 190 x 103mm
  • Sig 7

B110a face
B110a face
French Somaliland
B110a (
  • KM611
  • P-7A
) 20 Francs
Multicolor, denomination in red. Woman; Peacock, Butterflies
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1941)
  • Sig 7

  • Microprint
  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile


  • Rita SC
  • Roque FEC
  • (B)
B112as face
B112as face
French Somaliland
B112as (
  • KM613
  • P-8s
) 100 Francs Woman with wreath
Statue at Angkor
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1928-1938)
  • Sig 7
  • Specimen

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile

B114b face
B114b face
French Somaliland
B114b (
  • KM616b
  • P-9b
) 500 Francs Allegory of France
France and Local Woman, Ships
  • Printer: BdF
  • 3/8/1938
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Head of Polynesian woman


B126g face
B126g face
French West Africa
B126g (
  • LK201
  • P-42
) 1000 Francs Woman and Jugs, Gazelles
Woman in Native Costume of Upper-Guinea
  • Printer: BdF
  • 9/18/1950
  • Sig 8

  • Watermark: Woman with headscarf

  • Clément, C. SC
  • Rita SC
  • (B)
B313d face
B313d face
New Caledonia
B313d (
  • KM412d
  • P-36b
) 5 Francs Marianne de Walhain
Mauve, Brown on Lt. Green.
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1926)
  • 149 x 93mm
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile


  • Rita SC
  • Roque FEC
  • (B)
B314a face
B314a face
New Caledonia
B314a (
  • KM413a
  • P-37b
) 20 Francs Woman
Peacock, Butterflies
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1929)
  • Sig 5

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile


  • Rita SC
  • Roque FEC
  • (B)
B315e face
B315e face
New Caledonia
B315e (
  • KM415e
  • P-42e
) 100 Francs Woman with wreath
Statue at Angkor
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1963)
  • Sig 11

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile

B202a face
B202a face
New Hebrides
B202a (
  • KM702
  • P-6
) 20 Francs Woman
Peacock, Butterflies
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1941)
  • Sig 5

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile


  • Rita SC
  • Roque FEC
  • (B)
B234a face
B234a face
Romania
B234a (
  • P-53a
) 2000 Lei Seated Woman, Woman Feeding Child
Farmers, Oil Refinery
  • Printer: Banca Naţională a României
  • 11/18/1941

  • Watermark: Trajen


  • Gaspé, E. SC
  • (B)
B302a face
B302a face
Serbia
B302a (
  • P-23
) 500 Dinars
  • Printer: Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes
  • 5/1/1941

  • Watermark: Head of King Alexander I

B310e face
B310e face
Tahiti
B310e (
  • KM513e
  • P-14d
) 100 Francs Woman with wreath
Statue at Angkor
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1961-65)
  • Sig 11

  • Watermark: Man's Head in Profile

B207d face
B207d face
Tunisia
B207d (
  • MK403
  • P-8d
) 5 Francs Muslim Girl
Veiled Algerian woman at Port d'Algers
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1/27/1941
  • Sig 2

  • Watermark: Moorish woman’s head


B216a face
B216a face
Tunisia
B216a (
  • MK404a
  • P-15
) 5 Francs Muslim Girl
Veiled Algerian woman at Port d'Algers, Amirauté Lighhouse
  • 2/8/1944
  • Sig 5


B102a face
B102a face
Yugoslavia
B102a (
  • P-27b
) 100 Dinares
  • Printer: Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes
  • 12/1/1929
  • Sig 1

  • Watermark: Head of Miloš Obrenović in profile

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