1000 Francs

The Banque d'État du Maroc had its note production shifted to the American Bank Note Company in New York during the war years because the German occupation of France had severed access to the usual European security printers. French Morocco was under Vichy administration until the Allied landings of November 1942, after which the printing relationship with ABNC became both practical and politically convenient.

ABNC's engraving style is immediately legible to anyone familiar with their wartime Latin American and colonial work — a particular fineness in the geometric lathe patterns that European printers of the period rarely matched. The P#28 series is occasionally found with ink strike inconsistencies, a known characteristic of wartime ABNC production under increased demand.