Catalog
25 Centimes
| Issuer | Trésorerie Générale des Finances de Monaco |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Veuve A. Chêne, Monaco, Monaco |
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| Signature(s) | R. le Bourdon and A. Noghès |
| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Monaco's wartime small-change crisis dragged into 1920, well after the armistice, because bronze coinage remained scarce throughout the early postwar years. These paper fractional notes were a stopgap, printed entirely in-country by a local press — Veuve A. Chêne was not a specialist banknote printer, which shows in the relatively modest production quality compared to contemporary French emergency issues printed by established security printers.
Albert Berthe's engraving credit is unusual for a note at this denomination and scale. The watermarked paper was presumably sourced externally, since Monaco had no domestic papermill capable of security stock.