Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
100 Lur
| Issuer | Bank Broadel Breizh |
|---|---|
| Year | 1995 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Keltia Graphic |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central vignette illustrates a 17th-century tax collection scene with multiple figures gathered around a table in period costume. The Brittany coat of arms appears in the lower left. Three manuscript signatures are placed across the note with their respective titles. The composition is enclosed within the same Celtic knotwork border in red as the obverse. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Lur was a proposed Breton regional currency promoted by certain cultural nationalist circles in Brittany during the 1990s — never legally tender, never issued by a recognized financial institution. Bank Broadel Breizh ("National Bank of Brittany") had no banking charter; these notes were essentially political artifacts, printed as a statement of cultural and linguistic identity rather than as instruments of exchange. Keltia Graphic in Spézet was a natural choice, being a publisher already embedded in Breton-language cultural production.
The inclusion of a watermark on what amounts to a propaganda piece is worth noting — someone took the production seriously enough to commission security paper.