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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 lettering | Grossherzoglich Luxemburgischer Staat Kassenschein auf den Inhaber Gesetz vom 28. November 1914 25 Fünf und zwanzig Franken gleich Zwanzig Mark Die General-Staatskasse Die Kontrolle Wer Kassenscheine nachmacht oder verfälscht, wird mit Zwangsarbeit von 15 bis 20 Jahren bestraft. (Translation: State of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Cash Voucher to bearer Law of 28 November 1914 25 Twenty-Five Francs equal Twenty Marks The General State Treasury The Control Office Whoever counterfeits or falsifies Cash Vouchers will be punished with forced labour of 15 to 20 years.) |
| Reverse description | Black text on green and peach guilloche underprint mirroring the obverse lathe-work pattern. The face value numeral '25' is repeated within the central decorative panel against a multilayered geometric background, with the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions rendered in Gothic script. |
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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.