50 Francs

Printed in Casablanca rather than Paris, this note reflects the supply chain rupture caused by the Allied landings in North Africa and the effective severance of Morocco from metropolitan France in the wake of Operation Torch in November 1942. Imprimeries Réunies was a commercial printing house pressed into currency production out of necessity — not a security printer by trade.

Lavalley's design relied on engraving work split between Petit and Jacquin, a division suggesting the plates were produced under constrained circumstances. Jacquin handled the reverse alone, which points to differing origins for the two faces.