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2 Francs
| Issuer | Régence de Tunis |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | At left, a vignette of a veiled woman in traditional dress carrying a large water jug on her shoulder; to the right, a landscape vignette of the Bouguernine hills with a whitewashed building, palm tree, and figures with cattle in the foreground. The denomination '2 fr' appears in the upper corners, with Arabic numeral '٢' in the lower corners, and the note number and series letter are printed at the bottom centre. A guilloche underprint in light blue-grey covers the entire field. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a North African townscape with a minaret, framed within a Moorish horseshoe arch rendered in red and white stripes. The denomination '2 fr' appears in the upper corners and Arabic '٢' in the lower corners, all set within an ornate border of interlocking geometric and floral guilloche patterns. Bilingual text in French and Arabic fills the left and right panels, with the issuing authority inscription repeated at top and bottom. |
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Wartime necessity drove this note into existence. With Allied landings in North Africa disrupting normal supply lines from France, the Régence de Tunis had to source emergency low-denomination paper money locally. Imprimerie La Rapide was a commercial Tunis printer, not a security press — the results reflect that, with simpler execution than the pre-war French-printed series.
The 1943 series covers the tail end of the German occupation of Tunisia, which lasted from November 1942 until May 1943. Notes printed during this window circulated under two different political realities within months of each other.