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100 Francs - Young peasant type 1945
| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1945-1954 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 BANQUE DE FRANCE CENT FRANCS LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ (Translation: 100 Bank of France One Hundred Francs The counterfeiter will be punished with hard labour in perpetuity) |
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| Variants | P#128a - 07.11.1945 - 09.01.1947 / 31.05.1946 signatures: Rousseau & Favre-Gilly P#128b - 03.04.1947 - 19.05.1949 signatures: Rousseau & Gargam P#128c - 29.06.1950 - 16.11.1950 signatures: Cormier & Gargam P#128d - 06.09.1951 - 01.04.1954 / 02.11.1951 signatures: Gouin d'Ambrières & Gargam correct watermark (hair parted on her left) P#128e - 02.10.1952, 06.08.1953, 01.10.1953, 07.01.1954, 04.03.1954 & 01.04.1954 signatures: Gouin d'Ambrières & Gargam watermark reversed (hair parted on her right) P#128f - 17.07.1947 signatures: Rousseau & Favre-Gilly series 203 & 204 |
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Robert Poughéon designed this type in 1945, but the engraving work was split between two specialists — Camille Beltrand handling the obverse and Georges Régnier the reverse — a division of labor not unusual for Banque de France productions of the period, though it occasionally produced subtle inconsistencies in tonal register between the two faces.
The most catalogued curiosity of this series involves the watermark: notes dated from October 1952 through April 1954 under the Gouin d'Ambrières & Gargam signature combination show the watermark portrait reversed, with the hair parted on the subject's right rather than left. This wasn't corrected before the type was retired, making the reversed-watermark dates a distinct collecting variant. The July 1947 Rousseau & Favre-Gilly date is separately notable for being restricted to series 203 and 204 only.