Catalog
5 Francs
| Issuer | Etat du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Franc (1854-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | Etat du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg Bon de Caisse au porteur Loi du 28 nov. 1914 – Arrêté g.-d. du 11 déc. 1918 5 Cinq Francs 5 Le Directeur Général des Finances Le Délégué du Gouvernement Ceux qui auront contrefait ou falsifié des Bons de caisse seront punis des travaux forcés de 15 à 20 ans. |
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| Variants | P#29a - red seal at lower left on front and back P#29b - dark brown seal at lower left on front and back P#29c - black seal at lower left on front and back |
| Comments |
Luxembourg's 1918 5 Francs note occupies a peculiar position: it was issued by a government whose territory was under German military occupation, yet printed by Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig. The Grand Duchy had retained its own civil administration under occupation, and the continued issuance of state notes was part of that administrative fiction — Luxembourg francs circulating alongside German marks in the same economy.
G&D's involvement was entirely a function of wartime geography. Leipzig was accessible; Paris was not.