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100 Francs/Frang Type 1970
| Issuer | Caisse Générale de l'État, Luxembourg |
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| Year | 1970 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio portrait of Grand Duke Jean in military uniform occupies the left half of the note against a red-toned guilloche underprint, with wheat stalk vignettes to the left margin. The denomination "CENT FRANCS" is printed in large letterpress at centre, below the header "GRAND-DUCHE DE LUXEMBOURG", with the issue date 15 JUILLET 1970 and two manuscript signatures beneath the respective authority designations. Denomination numerals "100" appear in guilloche rosettes at lower left and upper right corners. |
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| Reverse description | A finely engraved panoramic vignette fills the entire face of the reverse, rendered in deep red intaglio, presenting a perspective view along the Adolphe Bridge in Luxembourg City looking toward the Avenue de la Liberté, with the State Savings Bank tower and surrounding neo-Gothic civic buildings visible in the middle ground and flanking treelines. The denomination numeral "100" appears in each of the four corners, and the legend "GRAND-DUCHÉ DE LUXEMBOURG" is set in two lines at the top centre. The entire composition is framed by a fine crosshatch guilloche border. |
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Luxembourg's Caisse Générale de l'État was a state treasury institution rather than a conventional central bank, a distinction that mattered less to users than to economists — but it explains why the issuing authority changed when the Banque Centrale du Luxembourg eventually absorbed those functions decades later. Bradbury Wilkinson, the New Malden firm with deep roots in security printing across the British Commonwealth and beyond, produced the note using their established intaglio methods.
The bilingual denomination — Francs and Frang — reflects Luxembourg's official trilingualism in practice, with Luxembourgish given parity alongside French on the face of a state instrument.