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2 Francs
| Uitgever | Régence de Tunis |
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| Jaar | 1920 |
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| Samenstelling | Paper |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Two nude boy figures (putti) stand as caryatids at the left and right margins, flanking the central text panel in an Art Nouveau vignette engraved by J. Friedling. The denomination DEUX FRANCS is inscribed in large letterpress type at the top of the central field, with the Arabic equivalent below, followed by series number, decree date in both French and Hijri calendar, and serial number. Two manuscript signatures appear below the decree text, with an oval warning stamp reading LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DES TRAVAUX FORCES A PERPETUITE at centre, and a bilingual French-Arabic exchangeability clause at the foot. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | RÉGENCE DE TUNIS DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DES FINANCES PROTECTORAT FRANÇAIS ٢٠٠ |
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The Régence de Tunis small-denomination emergency notes of 1920–1921 were a direct response to the acute coin shortage that plagued the French protectorate during and immediately after the First World War. Metallic currency had been heavily hoarded and exported, and the Direction Générale des Finances stepped in with low-value paper to keep retail commerce moving.
Printing locally at Imprimerie Yvorra & Barlier rather than sending the work to mainland France kept turnaround fast, and Joseph Friedling — handling both design and engraving — was a Tunis-based practitioner, not a metropolitan specialist. The result is a note with a distinctly provincial character compared to contemporaneous French colonial issues done through the Banque de France's official printing apparatus.