Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
10 Francs
| Issuer | French Treasury (Trésor Français) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1947 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central medallion vignette with a female head facing forward, wearing a plant-leaf headdress, flanked on each side by a cornucopia overflowing with fruit. The composition is rendered in a classical allegorical style with decorative borders enclosing the central motif. Denomination numeral '10' appears at left and right, with the issuing authority and territorial restriction legends surrounding the design. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | 10 | DIX FRANCS | 10 CE BILLET A COURS UNIQUEMENT DANS LES TERRITOIRES OCCUPES TERRITOIRES OCCUPES TRESOR FRANCAIS |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The French Treasury issued this note as part of the Allied Military Currency framework — though unlike the AMC notes printed for American or British forces, this series was produced domestically by the Banque de France for French military and treasury use in the immediate postwar period. Ernest Deloche and Pierre Munier were established Banque de France engravers working within the institution's own intaglio tradition, which gives this small-format treasury note a technical quality that distinguishes it from the Allied-issue scrip printed abroad.
The 1947 date places it in the thick of France's postwar monetary instability, before the Pinay stabilization efforts of the early 1950s.