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100 Units De La Rue Test Note
| Issuer | De La Rue (Thomas De La Rue & Co.) |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Printer | De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 100 100 ONE HUNDRED SAFEGUARD |
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| Protection description | Left obverse holographic strip with winged figure and wheat ear motif in gold and iridescent inks; central reverse optically variable dome element with colour-shift properties; right reverse windowed holographic strip with multiple owl vignettes and iridescent wheat ear |
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De La Rue introduced polymer substrate production in 2016 partly in response to losing the Bank of England's new polymer note contract to Canadian Banknote Company and De La Rue's own struggling transition away from cotton-paper dependency. Test notes like this one are produced for internal proofing and client demonstration purposes — they never enter circulation and are typically destroyed after evaluation, which makes surviving examples genuinely uncommon. The "100 Units" denomination is a deliberate fiction, keeping the test piece commercially neutral across multiple potential client pitches.