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1 Franc
| Issuer | Empire Chérifien |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Designer(s) | L. Schultz |
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| Obverse description | Printed in olive-green, the note carries the Moroccan five-pointed star (pentagram) as a central vignette above the large denomination numeral and bilingual text "UN FRANC / فرنك واحد". The denomination "1f" appears in circular cartouches at left and right, flanked by ornamental borders with arabesque guilloche patterns. The dahir date in French and Arabic script is inscribed across the top, with the anti-counterfeiting warning in French and Arabic along the lower margin, and the designer's name "L. SCHULTZ" at bottom left. |
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| Reverse lettering | EMPIRE CHERIFIEN PROTECTORAT DE LA REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE 1F فرنك واحد الإياله الشريفة حاية الجمهورية المتساوية L. SCHULTZ |
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The Empire Chérifien emergency issues of 1944 were a direct consequence of wartime disruption to normal currency supply chains. With metropolitan France occupied and transatlantic shipping uncertain, Morocco's monetary authorities turned to small-format fractional notes to address a acute coin shortage — metal was being diverted to the war effort, and existing coin stocks were hoarded almost immediately.
L. Schultz's design credit appears on several notes in this wartime series. Printed locally rather than through the established Paris engravers the Protectorate had previously relied on, the production values reflect the constraints of the moment.