Tamil Banknotes of French India

Tamil Banknotes of French India
French India is a general name for the former French possessions in India. These included Pudhucherry, Karikal and Yanam on the Coromandel Coast, Mahé on the Malabar Coast, and Chandannagar in Bengal.  Since areas such as Pudhucherry, Karikal and Yanam were Tamil areas that Tamil language appeared on French Indian banknotes.

The roupie or rupee was the currency of French India. It was equal to the Indian rupee issued by the British and then Indian governments. Until 1871 it was issued as coins with the roupie divided into 8 fanons, each of 3 doudous or 20 cash. From 1871, banknotes were issued by France's Banque de l'Indochine which circulated alongside coins issued by British India.

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Banknote: 10 Roupie
Date: 1874
Pick: A1
Description: 1.1.1874
Banknote: 10 Roupie
Date: 1901
Pick: A1
Description: 3.4.1901

Banknote: 10 Roupie 
Date: 1909
Pick: A1
Description: 24.5.1909

Banknote: 10 Roupie 
Date: 1910
Pick: A1s
Description: 0.5.1910

 
Banknote: 50 Roupie
Date: 1877
Pick: A2
Description:

Banknote: 50 Roupie     
Date: 1898
Pick: A3
Description: 10.9.1898.  Like A2 but printed date

Banknote: 50 Roupie 
Date: 1902
Pick: 1
Description: 22.2.1902 Like A3 but printed decrees

Banknote: 50 Roupie 
Date: 1902
Pick: 1s
Description: 22.2.1902 Like A3 but printed decrees Specimen ANNULE

Banknote: 10 Roupie    
Date: 1919
Pick: 2a
Description: 3.11.1919 Like A1 but printed date.  Issued Note

Banknote: 10 Roupie    
Date: 1919
Pick: 2b
Description: 4.11.1919 Cancelled w/handstamp ANNULE

Banknote: 50 Roupie    
Date: 1915
Pick: 3a
Description: 17.6.1915 Like 1. Issued note

Banknote: 50   
Date: 1915  
Pick: 3b
Description: Cancelled w/handstamp ANNULE

Banknote: 1 Roupie
Date: 1919
Pick: 4a
Description: 12.11.1919

Banknote: 1 Roupie 

Date: 1945

Pick: 4aS

Description: 8.9.1945

Banknote: 1 Roupie 

Date: 1923

Pick: 4b

Description: 1.8.1923 Sign 1

Banknote: 1 Roupie    

Date: 1923

Pick: 4b

Description: 1.8.1923 Sign 2

Banknote: 1 Roupie

Date: 1928

Pick: 4b

Description: 1.1.1928

Banknote: 1 Roupie

Date: 1932

Pick: 4c

Description: 5.4.1932

Banknote: 1 Roupie    

Date: 1936

Pick: 4d

Description: 13.2.1936

Banknote: 1 Roupie    

Date: 1938

Pick: 4d

Description: 8.3.1938

Banknote: 1 Roupie   

Date: 1945

Pick: 4d

Description: 8.9.1945

Banknote: 1 Roupie    

Date: 1945

Pick: 4e

Description: 8.9.1945 Cancelled

Banknote: 1 Roupie    

Date: 1945

Pick: 4A

Description: 8.9.1945 Face like 4.  Back guilloche with 3 cross

Banknote: 5 Roupie

Date: 1937

Pick: 5a

Description:

Banknote: 5 Roupie

Date: 1946

Pick: 5b

Description:

Banknote: 5 Roupie    

Date: 1946

Pick: 5c

Description: Punched hole cancelled with handstamp ANNULE

Banknote: 5 Roupie    

Date: 1946

Pick: 5s

Description: Specimen perforated Specimen

Banknote: 50 Roupie

Date: 1936 

Pick: 7a

Description:

Banknote: 50 Roupie

Date: 1937

Pick: 7b

Description:

Banknote: 50 Roupie

Date: 1945

Pick: 7c

Description:

Banknote: 50 Roupie

Date: 1945

Pick: 7d

Description: Punched hole cancelled with handstamp ANNULE

Banknote: 50 Roupie    

Date: 1945

Pick: 7s

Description: Specimen perforated Specimen

Tamil Banknotes of Burma

Tamil Banknotes of Burma

Burma was part of the British Empire until 1948.  Until the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942 a combination Indian Rupees with a Burma overprint and Reserve Bank of India Rupees printed specifically for Burma was used as the currency of Burma.  The Tamil language which was present on the language block on the back of some Indian banknotes was used in Burma.

In 1942 the Japanese introduced Japanese Invasion Money (JIM).  In 1944 the State Bank of Burma was established by the Japanese and began printing Kyat notes for Burma.  None of these notes had any Tamil writing on them.  From 1945 to 1948 the Indian Rupee with Burma overprint was used once again in Burma.  In 1948 the government of Burma introduced Rupees and later Kyats with Burmese and English writing.

The Tamil language appears in Pick #A1-A8, 1-3.  Does not appear in Pick #4-8 which were Reserve Bank of India banknotes printed specifically for Burma.  Does not appear on Pick #9-17 which was the Japanese Invasion Money.  Does not appear on Print #18-22 which was the State Bank of Burma.  Does not appear on Pick #23-24 part of the Provisional issues of the British Military Administration of Burma banknotes.  It re-appear on British Military Administration of Burma overprint on Indian banknotes on Pick #25-33 where is ends with the establishment of the Union Bank of Burma in 1953.

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Philippines S518 10 Pesos

Pick: S518
Date: 1944
Colour: Black with red print.

Philippines S518b 1944 10 Pesos

Mindanao Currency Board notes were created out of a desire to have a uniform currency for the entire island. Upon the printing of the first Mindanao Emergency Currency Board issue, the relatively few notes previously issued by Lanao and Misamis Occidental provincial officials were withdrawn.  This is the second issue of Mindanao Emergency Currency Board notes. Second issue
notes bear dates of 1943, 1944 or 1945 reflecting the year in which they were released to circulation. Second issue notes were the product of Sam Wilson's mint, known as the “hit-and-run mint”, since the makers were constantly on the move to avoid confiscation, capture and death at the hands of the Japanese. It is amazing that this currency was so widely accepted by the Filipinos, becoming the foundation of their existence under occupation, considering that the Japanese, early on, decreed that anyone caught with the currency would be shot on the spot.

Front: The seal of the Philippines in red.  All notes carry the signature of Florentino Saguin, as Chairman of the Board with F.D. Pacana and I. Barbasa as Members. 

Back:  The larger denominations bear both English and Tagalog text on the reverse.

Watermark: None

Printer: Local Printing Press Philippines

Varieties
a. Series 1944 is 11mm long (narrow date).
b. Series 1944 is 15mm long (wide date).



Catalog Value:

Philippines S528 20 Pesos

Pick: S528
Date: 1944
Colour: Black with green print.

Philippines S528d 1944 20 Pesos

Mindanao Currency Board notes were created out of a desire to have a uniform currency for the entire island. Upon the printing of the first Mindanao Emergency Currency Board issue, the relatively few notes previously issued by Lanao and Misamis Occidental provincial officials were withdrawn.  This is the second issue of Mindanao Emergency Currency Board notes. Second issue
notes bear dates of 1943, 1944 or 1945 reflecting the year in which they were released to circulation. Second issue notes were the product of Sam Wilson's mint, known as the “hit-and-run mint”, since the makers were constantly on the move to avoid confiscation, capture and death at the hands of the Japanese. It is amazing that this currency was so widely accepted by the Filipinos, becoming the foundation of their existence under occupation, considering that the Japanese, early on, decreed that anyone caught with the currency would be shot on the spot.

Front: The seal of the Philippines in green.  All notes carry the signature of Florentino Saguin, as Chairman of the Board with F.D. Pacana and I. Barbasa as Members. 

Back:  The larger denominations bear both English and Tagalog text on the reverse.

Watermark: None

Printer: Local Printing Press Philippines

Varieties
a.  No Series letter.  Serial # 00,001 to 99,000
b.  Series R. Serial # 00,001 to 25,700
c.  Series R5.  Serial # 25,701 to 99,100
d.  Series R5A.  Serial # 00,001 to 70,300
x.  Counterfeit. Series (italic) R5A.

Catalog Value:

Philippines S525 5 Pesos

Pick: S525
Date: 1944
Colour: Black with red print.

 

Philippines S525a 1944 5 Pesos

Mindanao Currency Board notes were created out of a desire to have a uniform currency for the entire island. Upon the printing of the first Mindanao Emergency Currency Board issue, the relatively few notes previously issued by Lanao and Misamis Occidental provincial officials were withdrawn.  This is the second issue of Mindanao Emergency Currency Board notes. Second issue
notes bear dates of 1943, 1944 or 1945 reflecting the year in which they were released to circulation. Second issue notes were the product of Sam Wilson's mint, known as the “hit-and-run mint”, since the makers were constantly on the move to avoid confiscation, capture and death at the hands of the Japanese. It is amazing that this currency was so widely accepted by the Filipinos, becoming the foundation of their existence under occupation, considering that the Japanese, early on, decreed that anyone caught with the currency would be shot on the spot.

Front: The seal of the Philippines in red.  All notes carry the signature of Florentino Saguin, as Chairman of the Board with F.D. Pacana and I. Barbasa as Members. 

Back:  The larger denominations bear both English and Tagalog text on the reverse.

Watermark: None

Printer: Local Printing Press Philippines

Varieties
a.  No Series letter.  Type I and Type II mixed in serial # 00,001 to 69,000
b.  Series 5. Type I and Type II mixed in serial # 69,000 to 99,000
c.  Series 7.  Serial # 00,001 to 07,100

Catalog Value:

Philippines S496 2 Pesos

Pick: S496
Date: 1943
Colour: Black with red print.

Mindanao Currency Board notes were created out of a desire to have a uniform currency for the entire island. Upon the printing of the first Mindanao Emergency Currency Board issue, the relatively few notes previously issued by Lanao and Misamis Occidental provincial officials were withdrawn.  This is the second issue of Mindanao Emergency Currency Board notes. Second issue
notes bear dates of 1943, 1944 or 1945 reflecting the year in which they were released to circulation. Second issue notes were the product of Sam Wilson's mint, known as the “hit-and-run mint”, since the makers were constantly on the move to avoid confiscation, capture and death at the hands of the Japanese. It is amazing that this currency was so widely accepted by the Filipinos, becoming the foundation of their existence under occupation, considering that the Japanese, early on, decreed that anyone caught with the currency would be shot on the spot.

Front: The seal of the Philippines in red.  All notes carry the signature of Florentino Saguin, as Chairman of the Board with F.D. Pacana and I. Barbasa as Members. 

Back:  The larger denominations bear both English and Tagalog text on the reverse.

Watermark: None

Printer: Local Printing Press Philippines


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