Fayette-Dessal: VF41.2, Pick: M16s, Schwan-Boling: 851s

50 francs (Suez) type 1956 Spécimen

1956

0.0

000000000

UNC

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. SPECIMEN numbered "0.0-00000". No perf. Very rare : Only 3 notes in the FBOW inventory. Size: 116x75mm. FBOW Collection. An another note is for sale € 2,900 at Le Comptoir des Monnaies (Numiscorner). See the sale: Here.