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5000 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE CINQ MILLE FRANCS PAYABLES AU PORTEUR ET A VUE خمسة آلاف فرنك 20-4-1942 Le Directeur Général, Le Caissier Principal, Le Secrétaire Gal. ARTICLE 139. LE CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX-FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ LE CONTREFACTEUR BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE - CINQ MILLE FRANCS (Translation: Bank of Algeria Five Thousand Francs Payable to the bearer and on sight) |
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| Reverse lettering | CINQ MILLE FRANCS خمسة آلاف فرنك 5000 GEO. DUVAL - FEC. E. DELOCHE SC. BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE - CINQ MILLE FRANCS (Translation: Five Thousand Francs) |
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This note was printed in Paris at the height of the German occupation — an odd circumstance given that Algeria remained under Vichy French administration and was not itself occupied. The Banque de France continued producing colonial currency through 1942 even as its own metropolitan notes were being issued under German supervision, a bureaucratic compartmentalization that says a great deal about how Vichy managed its empire.
Deloche was among the Banque de France's senior engravers of the period, responsible for some of the most technically refined intaglio work produced in France during the 1930s and 40s. The 5000 Franc denomination placed this note firmly in the hands of merchants and administrators rather than ordinary Algerians, whose wages rarely approached its face value.