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10 Francs
| Issuer | Banque d'État du Maroc |
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| Year | 1929-1942 |
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| Currency | Franc (1910-1959) |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio-printed reverse framed by an elaborate guilloche border incorporating interlocking floral and geometric motifs. The central field is occupied by Arabic calligraphic script giving the denomination and issuer name, flanked by the numeral 10 on each side, with three signature lines positioned below. A large circular blank vignette is placed at right, and an ornamental cartouche bearing Arabic script appears at lower right. |
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| Variants | P#17a(1) - 12.06.1929 P#17a(2) - 20.05.1931 P#17b - 06.03.1941 & 25.09.1942 |
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The Banque d'État du Maroc was a peculiar institution — nominally a Moroccan central bank but majority-owned by a consortium of European powers under the terms of the 1906 Act of Algeciras, which formalized international financial control over the Sultanate years before the formal French Protectorate began. These notes circulated across that entire transitional period, covering both the early Protectorate years and the strains of the Second World War on French North Africa.
Adolphe Giraldon was a respected decorative artist whose work appeared across several French colonial issues of the period. The obverse plate was engraved by Marguerite Dreyfus, known professionally as Rita — one of the few women to work as an engraver at the Banque de France during that era.