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20 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1914-1942 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Banque de France Reverse: Cesare Abramo Romagnoli |
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| Obverse description | Dull purple on blue guilloche underprint. A portrait of a young woman appears at lower right, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. Four manuscript or printed signatures appear across the lower portion of the note, with the issuer's name and statutory penalty legend inscribed in the surrounding letterpress border. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-violet intaglio vignette depicting two seminude youths flanking a central diamond-shaped cartouche bearing the numeral '20', set against a North African landscape of prickly pear cacti and palm fronds. One youth kneels to the left while the other stands to the right, both rendered in a classical allegorical style. An Arabic calligraphic inscription in Thuluth script runs across the full width of the upper border panel. |
| Reverse lettering | بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم ويل للمطففين 20 GEORGES DUVAL FEC. ROMAGNOLI SC. |
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