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2 Francs / 1 Mark 60 Pfennig
| Uitgever | État du Grand-Duché de Luxembourg |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1914 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Dark brown on orange and green underprint, with the Grand Ducal coat of arms as a central background vignette. A red official seal appears at lower left, with the full text of the authorizing law and denomination in both French and German arranged in multiple lines across the face. The note is inscribed as a Bon de Caisse (cash voucher) issued under the law of 28 November 1914. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | 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. |
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| Opmerkingen |
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.