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100 Francs
| Issuer | Grand-Duché de Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 100 Francs (100 LUF) |
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| Obverse lettering | GRAND-DUCHÉ DE LUXEMBOURG 100 LE MINISTRE DES FINANCES GRAND-DUCHÉ DE LUXEMBOURG · LETZEBURG · CENT FRANCS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ DES BONS DE CAISSE SERONT PUNIS DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS DE 15 À 20 ANS. AMERICAN BANKNOTE COMPANY |
| Reverse description | Burgundy-red underprint with guilloche panels bearing the numeral value at each corner and along each lateral border. The central vignette presents a seated female allegory with her left leg crossed over the right, surrounded by artisan tools, an anvil, and olive branches; the cityscape of Luxembourg with the Adolphe Bridge appears in the background, and the textual denomination is inscribed at bottom centre. |
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Printed by the American Bank Note Company in New York, this note was prepared in exile, part of a series produced for Luxembourg's post-liberation monetary reestablishment. When Allied forces entered Luxembourg in September 1944, the occupying German Reichskreditkassen notes had to be swept out of circulation rapidly — these ABNC-produced issues were the instrument for doing that.
The Grand Duchy had been under German occupation since May 1940, its own pre-war currency suppressed. Notes of this type were brought in with the liberating forces, making them unusual as wartime emergency issues that never needed to survive an extended circulation period.