Fayette-Dessal: VF41.1f, Pick: M16, Schwan-Boling: 851

50 francs (Suez) type 1956 Counterfeit note

1956

F.1

000585398

F/VF

French army occupation issues for "Suez Crisis" with Black overprint "FORCES FRANÇAISES EN MÉDITERRANÉE ORIENTALE" along with two black rectangles. Issue of November 1956. Without signature. Front: Mercury at left center, value top left and right, reverse blue and multicolored, maiden at center. Watermark with helmeted head profile. Size: 116x75mm. 11 counterfeit banknotes are known: F.1 12991, F.1 85398, F.1 98803, G.1 64785, M.1 15900, J.1 44027, Y.1 92021, A.2 05391, A.2 75068, N.2 47179 and Y.2 28693.