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1 Franc
| Issuer | Régence de Tunis |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of a veiled woman in profile carrying a water jug on her shoulder, set against a background with a mountain and palm tree motif. The denomination '1 fr' appears in ornamental cartouches at upper left and upper right, with the issuer title and value inscriptions in both French and Arabic flanking the central design. |
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| Obverse lettering | Regence De Tunis Un Franc (Translation: Regency of Tunis One Franc) |
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The Régence de Tunis emergency fractional notes of 1943 were produced locally under Axis occupation — the Allied landings of November 1942 had severed normal supply chains from metropolitan France, forcing Tunisian authorities to commission Imprimerie La Rapide in Tunis to produce emergency small-denomination notes. By the time Allied forces completed the liberation of Tunisia in May 1943, some of these notes had been in circulation only weeks.
The extremely small physical format was dictated by wartime paper scarcity, not convenience. P#55 is among the more ephemeral issues of the North African campaign period.