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!
2 Francs
| Issuer | Régence de Tunis, Direction Générale des Finances |
|---|---|
| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| 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 | Brown intaglio print on plain paper. Central text panel bears the denomination DEUX FRANCS in large letters with Arabic equivalent below, flanked by floral branch vignettes. Decree date 4 Novembre 1918 / 29 Moharrem 1337 appears mid-field, with series and serial number at lower left and right; two manuscript signatures below. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Brown guilloche-pattern underprint covers the entire field with a diagonal trellis design. A circular official seal of the Régence de Tunis is stamped at center. The legend DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DES FINANCES arcs around the upper and lower portions of the border, with RÉGENCE DE TUNIS and PROTECTORAT FRANÇAIS in the top and bottom frame respectively. |
| 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 Régence de Tunis 2 Francs of 1918 belongs to an emergency small-denomination series authorized during World War One, when the withdrawal of metallic coinage — silver especially — created acute shortages across French North Africa. The protectorate administration was forced to issue paper substitutes for coins that had effectively disappeared from circulation.
Pick 44 is among the more elusive of the wartime Tunisian issues. The notes were intended as temporary and treated accordingly; survival rates are low relative to their original print run.