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old francs

n. (old franc English)

Usage examples of "old francs".

Bond had one million francs of private capital - Old Francs, of course - about seven hundred pounds' worth.

Shortly after the Army mutiny, incensed by the new Gaullist policy and the misery of the small-time farmers and traders of the region, fleeing ruined to a country many of them had hardly seen across the water, he had helped an OAS unit to rob his own bank of thirty million old francs.

The outcome was the same, except that on this occasion the thieves got away with jewelry worth millions of old francs, two hundred million, according to the newspapers, a hundred million, according to the insurance-company assessors.