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A 10-franc US occupation
banknote. Reads “
émis en France” (“put in circulation in France”). The reverse features a
French flag and the
motto “
Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”.
The US Occupation franc was a currency emitted by the United States for use in a hypothetically Allied-occupied France in the wake of the Battle of Normandy. With the swift take-over of sovereignty by General De Gaulle, who considered the US occupation franc as “counterfeit money”, the currency rapidly faded out of use in favour of pre-war French franc.
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