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100 Dollars - De La Rue Test Note
| Issuer | Thomas De La Rue & Company |
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| Size | 155 x 67 mm |
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| Obverse description | Large intaglio-style vignette of mounted cowboys roping longhorn cattle on an open range, executed in fine engraved linework across a blue-grey underprint. Large guilloche numeral '100' overlays the right half, with a dark blue band bearing the spaced letterpress legend 'ONE HUNDRED' at lower right. The De La Rue printer's logo and name appear in the upper right corner. |
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| Reverse lettering | NOT LEGAL TENDER De La Rue 100 ONE HUNDRED |
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De La Rue has produced test and specimen printings for decades as sales tools — demonstration pieces shown to central bank procurement committees to exhibit security feature capabilities, paper quality, and intaglio depth without committing to any actual issuing authority's design. This note belongs to that tradition: a proprietary internal design used to showcase the firm's technical range rather than to fulfill any government contract.
The $100 denomination is not accidental. Central banks shopping for high-value note printing are the target audience, and a test piece denominated at the top of a typical currency ladder carries implicit commercial logic.