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100 Test Note De La Rue Garny, Testschein
| Issuer | De La Rue Garny |
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| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Reverse description | Blue intaglio design identical in layout to the obverse, with classical female bust vignette at left within a guilloche oval, central acanthus scrollwork cartouche, and denomination "100" in blue at upper and lower right with "De La Rue Garny" at right. A large diagonal red overprint "TESTSCHEIN" crosses the face. |
| Reverse lettering | De La Rue Garny 100 TESTSCHEIN |
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De La Rue Garny was the Frankfurt-based subsidiary of Thomas De La Rue, established to serve continental European central bank clients seeking locally contracted security printing. Test notes — Testscheine in German trade parlance — were produced as printing samples, not for circulation, and were typically presented to prospective or existing client banks to demonstrate paper quality, ink saturation, and intaglio depth without committing to a live denomination design.
Cotton substrate on a Testschein of this type was not incidental — it was the point. The paper itself was the product being sold.