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5000 Francs - Liberté type 1943
| Issuer | Trésor Central - République Française |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows the allegorical figure of Liberty striding to the left, wearing a Phrygian cap, brandishing a tricolor flag in her raised right hand and a torch in her left, set against a background of classical ruins. Denomination numerals appear in oval cartouches at left and right, with the authority inscription along the upper border. The engraver's signature EDMUND DULAC FEC. is present in the lower field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5000 | République Française - Trésor Central | 5000 CINQ | CINQ MILLE | MILLE FRANCS | FRANCS EDMUND DULAC FEC. |
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Designed and engraved by Edmund Dulac — better known as a book illustrator than a banknote artist — this note was produced in London for the Free French authorities as an Allied liberation currency, intended for use in metropolitan France following the expected landings. Dulac had already contributed to Allied propaganda work and stamp design for the exiled European governments based in London; the commission fit that broader pattern.
The series was printed well in advance of D-Day. By the time liberation began in 1944, American-produced Allied Military Currency had been designated for immediate use instead, which complicated the Trésor Central notes' introduction and left portions of the print run in administrative limbo.