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!
1000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France Libre |
|---|---|
| Year | 1941 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Franc (1917-1945) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| 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 | Blue intaglio on red guilloche underprint. Central vignette of a phoenix rising from flames, set within a dark oval medallion, flanked by decorative botanical sprays at each corner. Denomination numerals '1000' appear at left and right, with the title inscription at top and 'MILLE FRANCS' in large letters at foot; two manuscript signature lines are present below the central vignette. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| 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 | P#14a - issued note P#14p - red proof P#14s1 - specimen, punch hole cancelled P#14s2 - specimen without overprint, perforated: SPÉCIMEN |
| Comments |
The Caisse Centrale de la France Libre was established by de Gaulle's Free French administration in 1941 specifically to provide a monetary instrument for liberated or contested French territories — this 1000 Francs note being one of its first significant issues. The commission went to Bradbury Wilkinson, the London security printer with deep experience in colonial and emergency currency work, and the design to Edmund Dulac, the French-born illustrator who had been resident in Britain since 1905 and was already contributing to British wartime propaganda efforts.
Pick #14 is notably scarce in genuinely circulated condition, as distribution was limited and geographically uneven across Free French-controlled territories.