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5 Francs

Issuer Banque de l'Algérie
Year 1944
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Printer Imprimerie du Gouvernement, Paris
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Obverse description Salmon-pink guilloche underprint covers the field, overlaid with a decorative Moorish lattice pattern in the background. At right, a vignette portrait of a young Tunisian woman in traditional dress and white headscarf is rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The bank title BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE appears across the top, with the date 2-10-1944 below it, the denomination CINQ FRANCS in large letterpress text to the left, and the overprint TUNISIE running vertically along the right margin.
Obverse lettering BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE
CINQ FRANCS
TUNISIE
2-10-1944
Le Secrétaire Gal
Le Caissier Pal
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