1 Franc

The Direction Générale des Finances issued this note — not the Banque de l'Algérie, which normally handled Tunisian paper currency — because the war had severed reliable supply chains for imported banknotes and created an acute shortage of small-denomination coin across French North Africa. Local emergency fractions like this one were a direct response to that shortage, produced entirely within Tunis by Weber's lithographic shop alongside Vorra, Barlier & Clave.

The official stamp was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, reflecting how quickly and simply the issue had to be assembled. Pick 36 is among the scarcer survivors of the Tunisian wartime fractional series — most were worn to destruction in daily market use.