Catalog
25 Francs
| Issuer | État du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Blue-green and red on light-green underprint, mirroring the obverse colour scheme. The Coat of Arms of Luxembourg is printed as a central background vignette, with a red seal at lower left. The reverse carries the equivalent German-language text, including the series designation Serie B, in accordance with Luxembourg's bilingual issue practice. |
| Reverse lettering | Kassenschein auf den Inhaber, ausgestellt von Großherzoglich Luxemburgischer Staat Gesetz vom 28. November 1914 - Großhz. Beschluß vom 11. Dezember 1918 Fünf und zwanzig Franken Serie B (Translation: Cash Voucher To bearer, issued by The State of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Law of November 28, 1914 - Grand-Ducal Decree of December 11, 1918 Twenty-Five Francs Series B) |
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Luxembourg's postwar currency situation in 1919 was genuinely complicated. The Grand Duchy had used German marks throughout the occupation and needed to reassert its own monetary footing fast — these État notes were a transitional solution issued before the Luxembourg franc was formally stabilized under the 1921 economic union with Belgium. Having G&D in Leipzig print them is the awkward detail: a German firm producing the new postwar currency of a country that had just spent four years under German military occupation.
Pick 31 is scarcer than its catalog position suggests.