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2 Francs / 1 Mark 60 Pfennig
| Issuer | État du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Franc (1854-2001) |
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| Reverse description | Dark brown on orange and green underprint, the reverse presents the German-language equivalent text within a layout of geometric guilloche ornaments and denomination numerals as background elements. The overall design is typographic in character, consistent with emergency wartime cash voucher printing. |
| Reverse lettering | Grossherzoglich Luxemburgischer Staat Kassenschein auf den Inhaber Gesetz vom 28. November 1914 Zwei Franken gleich Eine Mark sechzig Pfennig (Translation: Grand Ducal State of Luxembourg Cash Voucher To bearer Law of November 28, 1914 Two Francs equal One Mark sixty Pfennig.) |
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Luxembourg's occupation by German forces in August 1914 created an immediate practical problem: Belgian francs, which had circulated freely in the duchy alongside local currency, began disappearing as the war disrupted cross-border commerce. This note was issued by the Grand Ducal state — not by a bank — to address the resulting small-change shortage, with the dual denomination reflecting the fixed parity between the franc and the mark that had held since the Latin Monetary Union arrangements of the preceding decades.
The irony of Giesecke & Devrient in Leipzig printing emergency currency for an occupied nation is unremarkable by wartime standards, but worth noting: the occupying power's own printer supplied the paper that kept Luxembourg's markets functioning.