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10 Francs German Occupation - WWII
| Issuer | Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxembourg) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Printer | Giesecke+Devrient (Giesecke & Devrient), Leipzig, Germany (1852-date) |
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| Obverse description | Black ink on multicolour underprint with guilloche patterning. Portrait vignette of Paul Eyschen at left, rendered in intaglio. Red serial numbers printed in letterpress. |
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| Obverse lettering | LETZEBURG ZENG FRANG 10 LETZEBURG, DEN 20.ABREL 1940 (Translation: Luxembourg Ten Francs Luxembourg, April 20th., 1940) |
| Reverse description | Black and brown ink on green guilloche underprint. The Luxembourg coat of arms — a crowned lion rampant over a quartered shield, surmounted by a stag crest with the motto ICH DIEN — is centrally placed, flanked by two large denomination numerals '10' set within elaborate guilloche rosettes. A bilingual anti-counterfeiting warning in German and French runs along the lower margin. |
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