Product Description
SCWPM.#3i - TBB.#B103i
Date: ND (2010)
Grade: Unc.
Signature: 12 - Series: Q.017 or X.014
Description:
Colour: Green.
Front: French text; navigator Louis Antoine de Bougainville; three-masted schooners, fishing net; sextant, stern of ship; Polynesian fabric pattern.
Back: French text; Caledonian native flowers; canoe; Cook pine trees; Admiral Auguste Febvrier-Despointes;
carved motifs.
Solid security thread with printed IEOM.
Watermark: RF and female (Marianne) head wearing Phrygian cap.
Printer: (Banque de France).
Size: 172 x 92 mm.
Material: Paper.
General information: 1985 - 2013 Issues
The above mentioned banknote and following notes denominated in francs are the common currency of French Oceania, New Caledonia, and Wallis & Futuna Islands.
The front depicts French Polynesia and the back is devoted to New Caledonia. Design types of B101 - B103 are like issues for New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and French Oceania, but without Nouvelles-Hébrides, NOUMEA, or PAPEETE overprints, respectively.
Source: The Banknotebook.