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100 francs - Principauté de Monaco
| Issuer | Monaco |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint with a portrait of Princess Grace Patricia Kelly set against a film-strip vignette; a monogram of the Princess appears alongside the issuer title. The note is marked ESSAI and NON REMBOURSABLE, with dates 1929–1982 referencing her life span. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Monaco hasn't issued its own paper currency since the franc-era notes of the mid-twentieth century — the principality moved to the euro alongside France in 2002. This piece is a fantasy or specimen production by Matej Gabris, a Slovak designer known for creating elaborate uninstructed banknote designs for territories that either use another currency or have no paper issue at all. The "Principauté de Monaco" framing gives it an air of official plausibility, but no such note was ever authorized, tendered, or circulated.
The watermark security feature is a nod to convention, not function.