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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque d'État du Maroc |
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| Year | 1943-1944 |
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| Currency | Franc (1910-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour print in orange, green, red, and blue tones, centred on a Moorish horseshoe arch vignette framed by ornate Islamic geometric guilloche patterns and lattice underprint. Two Moroccan pentagram star medallions flank the arch at left and right within radiating sunburst borders, with the denomination numeral '100' appearing in cartouches at each lower corner. Three signature panels with Arabic role titles appear below the arch, accompanied by a text panel at the foot of the note bearing a warning legend in Arabic script, and the printer's imprint 'E. A. Wright Bank Note Co. Phila.' at the bottom margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | البنك المخزني المغربي مائة فرنكا الكاتب العام الديرستور القدم المدير العالي لا يجوز لأحد أن يزيف أو يزور أوراق البنك المخزني المغربي ويعاقب كل من يرتكب هذه الجريمة أو يشترك فيها بالعقوبات المقررة في القانون E. A. WRIGHT BANK NOTE CO. PHILA. (Translation: State Bank of Morocco / One Hundred Francs / General Secretary, First Director, Director General / Any person who counterfeits or falsifies the notes of the State Bank of Morocco, and any accomplice, will be punished in accordance with the penalties provided by law / E. A. Wright Bank Note Co. Philadelphia) |
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Banque d'État du Maroc had its notes printed in the United States during this period for a straightforward reason: the German occupation of metropolitan France had severed access to the Banque de France's printing facilities, and Morocco — under Vichy administration until the Allied landings of November 1942 — needed an alternative. E. A. Wright in Philadelphia was primarily a security printer for commercial and institutional work, and its involvement with Moroccan colonial currency is one of the more unusual chapters in that firm's output.
The P#27 series covers dates across 1943 and 1944, a window when the political status of French Morocco shifted sharply under Allied control.