~~~ asking him about the CH crest and seal chip when all that was known about it back then was a photo from Howdy Herz of just the one side seen in the USPC records/notes. While he correctly sent me an ID of Hotel Condado, I later sent him a copy of this... thinking that perhaps it was from early on and later tossed into inventory that made it over to either France or the French West Indies and used somewhere there up to and including after the French Monitary Reform; early 1960, but not.

Cuba has also been suggested with an accurate timeline pinpoint... but I have no info of anything leaving Cuba that early on, especially in quantity for where the New French franc was used... The other way around, yes, but I doubt here.

Good thought, though...