New Hebrides P-19c / 500 Francs 1980 – UNC

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New Hebrides P-19c / 500 Francs 1980 – UNC

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Issued by Institut d’Émission d’Outre-Mer / Nouvelles-Hébrides
Issue ND (1970-1980) Overprint “Nouvelles-Hébrides” in Script Issue
Size 150 x 80 mm
Printer Institut d’Emission d’Outre-Mer (France) – IEOM
Watermark RF and female (Marianne) head wearing Phrygian cap
Signature Billecart & Theron
Obverse Canoe and an outrigger sailing in a coastal landscape of the Marquesas Islands, Bust of a young Polynesian fisherman at right, Fish, corals, coral polyps and other underwater flora and fauna
Reverse Bearded Polynesian man from the island of Uvea on Loyalty Islands – New Caledonia; Landscape rocks representing Hienghène, Wooden carving at right, Palms, conch shells, harpoons, branch of mangroves, and shellfish