Fayette-Dessal: VF43.1, Pick: M18, Schwan-Boling: 853

1,000 francs (Suez) type 1956

1956

J.1

000881160

XF/AU

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. Description: Blue and multicolored design. Front: Mercury at left center, reverse blue and multicolored, maiden at center. Watermark with helmeted head profile. Very rare. Size: 116x75mm. FBOW Collection. This note was sold € 5,038 at cgb.fr in 2009, Paper Money # 14, (Lot # p14_0506). Go to the page: Here. Only 46 banknotes are known in the FBOW inventory!