Catalogus
| Uitgever | Régence de Tunis |
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| Jaar | 1920 |
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| Valuta | Franc (1891-1957) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Green letterpress note with an ornate guilloche border incorporating stylised columns at each side and a crescent-and-star device at the top centre. The denomination CINQUANTE CENTIMES is printed in large bold letters across the upper field, with bilingual Arabic and French text below giving the decree date and issuing authority; a central oval vignette contains the counterfeiting warning. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower half, those of the Trésorier Général de Tunisie at left and the Directeur Général des Finances at right, with series and serial number printed in the respective corners. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | REGENCE DE TUNIS CINQUANTE CENTIMES DÉCRET DU 3 MARS 1920 13 DJOUMADI-ETTHANI 1338 VALEUR ÉCHANGEABLE CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DES TRAVAUX FORCES À PERPÉTUITÉ PROTECTORAT FRANÇAIS LITH. YVORRA & BARLIER TUNIS J. FRIEDLING Graveur |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Direction Générale des Finances issued this note under the French Protectorate administration — a colonial bureaucracy issuing currency in its own name rather than through a metropolitan French bank. Small-denomination paper was necessary because metallic coinage had been heavily hoarded or melted during the First World War years, leaving everyday transactions stranded.
Lithographie Yvorra & Barlier was a local Tunis commercial printer, not a specialized security printing house. That explains the lithographic rather than intaglio production — and it shows in surviving examples, which frequently exhibit uneven ink distribution and registration drift between color layers.