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100 Francs - Sully type 1939
| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1935-1942 |
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| Value | 100 Francs |
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| Obverse description | At left, a female bust crowned with laurels, personifying France, faces right in intaglio relief; at right, a child holds a medallion framed by bunches of grapes. The background presents an aerial vignette of Paris centered on the Île de la Cité, rendered in fine engraved detail with guilloche underprint patterns bordering the composition. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 BANQUE DE FRANCE 100 CENT FRANCS (Translation: 100 Bank of France 100 One Hundred Francs) |
| Reverse description | At right, a bust of Maximilien de Béthune, duc de Sully, faces left, holding a parchment inscribed in old French, executed in intaglio engraving. The background vignette presents the Château de Sully-sur-Loire set within a pastoral landscape with livestock, alluding to Sully's celebrated agrarian maxim reproduced in the lower legend. |
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