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10 000 Francs Assignat
| Issuer | French Republic (Assignats) |
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| Year | 1795 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Watermark reading 10000, RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE, and Liberté ou la mort |
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The assignat program, launched in 1789 as a bridge solution backed by confiscated Church and émigré property, had by 1795 collapsed into one of history's more instructive hyperinflationary disasters. This 10,000-franc denomination — unthinkable in the early Revolutionary years when assignats circulated as modest land-backed certificates — exists precisely because earlier issues had been printed in such volumes that face values had to keep escalating to keep pace with purchasing-power destruction. By early 1796 the entire assignat system was formally abolished, with outstanding paper worth fractions of a percent of face value.
Counterfeiting was a persistent and politically weaponized problem throughout the series; Britain ran organized forgery operations as deliberate economic warfare.