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| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1923-1937 |
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| Designer(s) | Luc Olivier Merson |
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| Reverse description | Allegorical vignette presents a male figure of Work, rendered as a blacksmith, at left, and Fortune as a woman with a child and cornucopia at right, the two figures flanking the central reserve. The entire composition is enclosed within ornate golden guilloche moldings consistent with the obverse. Issuer name, denomination, and a statutory anti-counterfeiting warning are inscribed within the design, along with engraver and designer credits. |
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| Protection description | Profile heads of Ceres and Mercury |
| Variants | P#78a - 30.11.1923 - 26.06.1926 / 01.05.1924 signatures: Platet & Aupetit P#78b - 01.07.1926 - 29.12.1932 / 07.08.1930 signatures: Platet & Strohl P#78c - 12.01.1933 - 30.06.1937 / 02.02.1933 signatures: Boyer & Strohl P#b - |
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