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20 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | At right, an intaglio vignette of a veiled young woman in profile is set within an ornate oval cartouche with decorative scrollwork. The left field carries the bank title BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE at top, the denomination VINGT FRANCS in large letterpress with the Arabic equivalent below, and a large guilloche underprint numeral 20 at centre. Two signature lines for Le Caissier Principal and Le Secrétaire Général appear at lower centre, above the counterfeiting warning legend. |
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| Protection description | the Banque de l'Algérie |
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The Bank of Algeria's wartime printing arrangement with the Banque de France placed production firmly in metropolitan France during a period when Algeria itself was under competing administrative pressures — first Vichy, then the Free French following the November 1942 Allied landings. Notes dated 12 November 1942 were signed under the Berino-Sebald pairing, just days after Operation Torch effectively ended Vichy's direct hold on Algerian territory.
Romagnoli's engraving work for the Banque de France is well documented across multiple colonial issues of the period. The two signature combinations give collectors a reliable way to bracket the political transition between 1942 and 1945.