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5 Francs - Allied Military Currency
| Issuer | Allied Military Authority |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Value | 5 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | ÉMIS EN FRANCE CINQ FRANCS SÉRIE DE 1944 (Translation: Issued in France Five Francs, Series of 1944) |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ |
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Allied Military Currency for France was produced under a programme coordinated between the U.S. Treasury and the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ahead of the Normandy landings. The French provisional government under de Gaulle bitterly opposed the entire scheme — he viewed AMC as an instrument of American occupation, not liberation, and refused to grant it legal tender status in French law. The standoff was genuine: SHAEF issued the notes anyway, and French authorities directed civilians not to accept them.
Forbes Lithograph, a commercial printer in South Boston, produced multiple AMC series for different theatres. The French notes were lithographed rather than intaglio-printed, which is one reason de Gaulle's government found it easy to dismiss them as essentially scrip. The Banque de France ultimately absorbed the redemption burden after U.S. forces withdrew.