Juno on a Madagascar Banknote
2021-06-18 Fri
It is a rather unique scenario to have a Roman Goddess depicted upon it. Madagascar is a huge island nation off the southeast coast of Africa with diverse ecosystems and unique wildlife.The franc was the currency of Madagascar until January 1, 2005. It was subdivided into 100 centimes. In 1961, the Institut d’Emission Malgache (Malagasy Issuing Institute) introduced banknotes in denominations of 50, 100, 500, 1000, and 5000 francs.
Today we are looking at a 5 Francs banknote issued in 1937. This yellow-brown banknote has Roman Goddess Juno to left and the value in words to right on the obverse, while the reverse has the promissory text to the right and the value in numeral to left.
Image Courtesy: vcoins.com
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