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25 Francs / 20 Marks
| Issuer | État du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Franc (1854-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Black text on green and peach guilloche underprint with an elaborate floral and geometric lathe-work border. The centre panel carries the denomination in large Gothic script, with the dual-currency equivalence 'Fünf und zwanzig Franken gleich Zwanzig Mark' set below the issue authority and bearer clause. A circular red seal bearing the Grand Ducal coat of arms is applied at lower left, accompanied by a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | Grossherzoglich Luxemburgischer Staat Kassenschein auf den Inhaber Gesetz vom 28. November 1914 Fünf und zwanzig Franken gleich Zwanzig Mark Die General-Staatskasse (Translation: State of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Cash Voucher to bearer Law of 28 November 1914 Twenty-Five Francs equal Twenty Marks The General State Treasury) |
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Luxembourg's pre-war currency arrangements meant the Grand Duchy circulated both French francs and German marks simultaneously, and this dual-denomination note reflects that monetary overlap precisely. When German forces occupied Luxembourg in August 1914, the existing note stock — printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig before the war — suddenly became instruments of an occupied economy rather than a neutral one.
The Leipzig connection is not incidental: G&D had supplied Luxembourg's banknotes for years, and the relationship continued under occupation with the awkward consequence that the occupying power's own printers had already produced the currency in use.