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100 Francs Delacroix - type 1978 uniface
| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1983-1993 |
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| In circulation to | 1 January 2009 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Three-quarter-facing portrait of Eugène Delacroix, visible when the note is held to light. |
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The Delacroix 100 Francs ran for an unusually long production window — fifteen years from first issue to withdrawal — and accumulated an enormous quantity of printed notes. That volume is precisely why survivors in any grade are so common today and why collector premiums remain modest across the board.
Fontanarosa's design and Renaud's engraving work came out of the Banque de France's own atelier, the Établissement de la Monnaie de Paris printing infrastructure, keeping production entirely domestic. The "uniface" designation in the type name is a cataloging oddity — both faces are printed, but the term distinguishes this from the earlier Delacroix issue that preceded the 1978 typological revision.