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2 Francs
| Issuer | Protectorat de la France au Maroc |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain light-green card stock with a guilloche wave border framing the entire note. The French legend appears at the top, with the Arabic equivalent directly below; the large denomination inscription occupies the centre field. An octagonal black overprint stamp reading "MAROC 2F" is applied to the right side. The series letter, serial number, and date "Octobre 1919" are printed along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain, unprinted light-green card stock, uniform in colour with no vignette, text, or decorative elements, consistent with the simple cardboard emergency issue format of the Moroccan Protectorate. |
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The Protectorate administration began issuing small-denomination cardboard emergency notes in 1919 to address a chronic shortage of metallic currency — silver and bronze coins had been hoarded or exported during the war years, leaving everyday transactions in Morocco effectively paralyzed. These notes were a stopgap, intended for local commerce only, and were not legal tender outside the Protectorate zone.
The cardboard composition makes survival rates poor. The material warps, splits along edges, and stains readily in humid conditions — Morocco's coastal cities were particularly hard on paper currency. Undamaged examples of the P#7 are genuinely difficult to find.