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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Banque d'État du Maroc |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Value | 1000 Francs |
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| Reverse description | Panoramic intaglio-printed landscape vignette at centre, with a fortified town and minaret at left and an expansive hilly terrain extending to the right, all framed by a fine guilloche border. Arabic legends of the bank name and denomination appear at the upper centre and right, with the numeral '1000' repeated at lower left and lower right. The engraver's name 'A. Maillart' is visible in the lower right margin. |
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| Variants | P#46As - Specimen |
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Banque d'État du Maroc was not a Moroccan institution in any meaningful sense — it was a multinational bank established under the 1906 Act of Algeciras, with shareholders drawn from fourteen European powers and the United States. France held dominant influence, but the bank's international character was written into its founding charter. By 1951, that arrangement was increasingly anachronistic; Morocco would achieve independence in 1956, and the bank was dissolved shortly after.
Thomas De La Rue's contract for this series ran through the final years of the Protectorate. Maillart's engraving work appears across several De La Rue issues of the period.