Catalog
5000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque d'État du Maroc |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE D'ÉTAT DU MAROC CINQ MILLE FRANCS LES AUTEURS PRINCIPAUX OU COMPLICES DE FALSIFICATION OU DE CONTREFAÇON DE BILLETS DE BANQUE, SERONT PUNIS CONFORMÉMENT AUX LOIS & ACTES EN VIGUEUR |
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| Variants | P#48s - Specimen |
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The Banque d'État du Maroc was a peculiarly colonial institution — nominally international under the 1906 Act of Algeciras, with shareholding spread across European powers, but functionally an instrument of French protectorate finance. By 1951, Moroccan independence was still five years away, and notes of this denomination circulated within an economy still firmly oriented toward French commercial interests.
Thomas De La Rue's involvement in this series is consistent with their broad postwar mandate printing for franc-zone territories. At 5,000 Francs, this was a high-value note by the standards of daily Moroccan commerce — a denomination that moved through banks and trading houses rather than souks.