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10 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1946 |
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| Value | 10 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE FRANCE DIX FRANCS Le Caissier Général, Le Secrétaire Général, Série A 000000 |
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| Reverse lettering | BANQUE DE FRANCE 10 BdF L'ART. 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ LES BILLETS DE BANQUES AUTORISÉS PAR LA LOI, AINSI QUE CEUX QUI AURONT FAIT USAGE DE CES BILLETS CONTREFAITS OU FALSIFIÉS. |
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The Banque de France resumed normal domestic note production in 1945–46 after years of wartime disruption, German occupation, and the parallel currency chaos that followed Liberation. This 10 Francs type — printed entirely in-house at the Bank's own workshops on the Rue de la Vrillière — belongs to that transitional moment when the institution was reasserting control over a currency badly eroded by occupation-era inflation and the competing Allies Military Currency issues.
Pick 126A is among the shorter-lived types in the postwar French series. The 10-franc denomination itself was rendered increasingly marginal by inflation within a few years, eventually eliminated in the broader monetary reforms of the early 1950s.