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1 Franc
| Issuer | Régence de Tunis |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in red, repeats the seated male figure at left and seated female figure at right within matching arched borders and ornamental parapet at the top. The central field is filled with a dense letterpress guilloche underprint repeating the text 'DIRECTION GENERALE DES FINANCES', over which a large oval official stamp is applied at centre. The inscription 'DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DES FINANCES' appears in an arched band both above and below the central stamp, with crescent-and-star devices in the upper corners. |
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| Protection description | Large oval official seal of the Direction Générale des Finances applied by hand to the centre of the reverse. |
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| Comments |
Tunisia's Direction Générale des Finances stepped in as note issuer during a period when small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — a problem that afflicted most of the French colonial world in the aftermath of the First World War. Metal hoarding and export left a practical void that temporary paper substitutes were meant to fill.
Printed locally by Yvorra & Barlier rather than shipped from metropolitan France, this is an emergency issue in the strictest sense. The sole security feature is an official stamp — applied by hand — which means forgery detection depended entirely on that impression remaining legible. Copies with faded or smudged stamps are a known problem with the series.