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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque et Caisse d'Epargne de l'Etat, Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1980-1986 |
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| Value | 100 Francs (100 LUF) |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Grand Duke Jean (Jean Benoît Guillaume Robert Antoine Louis Marie Adolphe Marc d'Aviano, born 5 January 1921) set against a vignette of the Grand Ducal Palace and the adjacent Chambre des députés (Parliament building) in Luxembourg City, rendered in intaglio with fine guilloche underprint. The denomination and country title appear in letterpress, with the legend "GRAND-DUCHE DE LUXEMBOURG" across the upper register and "CENT FRANCS" below. |
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| Obverse lettering | GRAND-DUCHE DE LUXEMBOURG CENT FRANCS (Translation: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, One Hundred Francs) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson printed this series from their New Malden facility during a period when the firm was among the last independent British security printers still operating outside a major conglomerate — they were acquired by American Bank Note Company in 1990, the year the company folded. Pit Weyer, a Luxembourgish designer, was one of the few native artists to receive a commission for national banknote design in this period, which was otherwise dominated by the printers' own in-house studios.
The note circulated across two distinct signature combinations, suggesting a longer active life than the six-year window implies. Watermark-only security was already conservative for the 1980s.