£45.00
New Hebrides P-19c / 500 Francs 1980 – UNC
Description
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 |