The Commissariat National aux Finances was the financial arm of the French National Committee operating out of Algiers, and these notes were produced to give de Gaulle's administration a functioning currency apparatus ahead of the liberation. P#3B is a signature variety within a series that also encompasses closely related types, and distinguishing between them requires careful attention to the signatory combinations rather than any visual redesign.
Wartime paper quality varies considerably across surviving examples — not as a grading caveat, but because supply constraints in North Africa made consistency impossible. Known to circulate in liberated French territories before the transitional postwar issues took over in 1944–45.
The Commissariat National aux Finances was the financial arm of the French National Committee operating out of Algiers, and these notes were produced to give de Gaulle's administration a functioning currency apparatus ahead of the liberation. P#3B is a signature variety within a series that also encompasses closely related types, and distinguishing between them requires careful attention to the signatory combinations rather than any visual redesign.
Wartime paper quality varies considerably across surviving examples — not as a grading caveat, but because supply constraints in North Africa made consistency impossible. Known to circulate in liberated French territories before the transitional postwar issues took over in 1944–45.