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| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1941-1949 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Central intaglio vignette of a miner in three-quarter profile facing right, pick resting on his right shoulder, rendered in a detailed realist style against a faint industrial landscape. Flanking lateral vignettes show standing worker figures in relief, with the Banque de France monogram at lower left. Denomination numerals appear at upper corners and the issue date is printed at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a seated peasant woman in traditional headdress, nursing an infant and holding a hoe, facing left, with a pastoral landscape of grazing cattle and a village in the background. The composition is framed by an ornate border of intertwined fruit and foliage. Denomination numerals appear at upper corners against a light guilloche underprint. |
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| Signature(s) | 11.09.1941 - Rousseau & Favre-Gilly 09.10.1941, 19.11.1942, 14.01.1943 & 19.04.1945 - Rousseau & Favre-Gilly 11.06.1942 & 20.01.1944 - Rousseau & Favre-Gilly 15.10.1942 & 09.09.1943 - Rousseau & Favre-Gilly 26.11.1942, 25.03.1943, 13.01.1944 & 22.06.1944 - 09.01.1947 - Rousseau & Favre-Gilly 30.10.1947 - 30.06.1949 - Rousseau & Gargam 30.10.1947 - 30.06.1949 / 07.04.1949 - Rousseau & Gargam Replacement note with Block letter W |
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