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500 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The central intaglio vignette presents three allegorical male figures in a classical academic composition, two engaged in vigorous poses suggestive of labour or sacrifice, set against a background of Roman colonnaded ruins at right. A rectangular panel at upper left carries the denomination inscription in both French and Arabic script, with a second Arabic-script panel positioned below. The engraver's name appears in the lower corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banque de l'Algérie operated as a note-issuing authority under French metropolitan supervision, and by 1947 it was navigating the immediate postwar monetary disorder that had swept through North Africa — including a 1945 currency exchange designed to soak up wartime hoards and occupation-era inflation. Notes of this denomination were printed by the Banque de France in Paris and shipped to Algeria, a logistical arrangement that made uninterrupted supply vulnerable to any disruption in the shipping lanes.
Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate whose work for French colonial currency spanned several decades; Hourriez and Armanelli were career engravers at the Banque de France atelier.