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1000 Francs - type 1862 succursales
| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1860-1862 |
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| Engraver(s) | Jacques-Jean Barre |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE FRANCE. SUCCURSALE DE CHALON-SUR-SAÔNE. IL SERA PAYÉ EN ESPÈCES, À VUE, AU PORTEUR. mille francs. Créé le 23 Août 1860. Le Directeur de la Succursale. Le Secrétaire Général de la Banque. Le Caissier de la Succursale. Le Contrôleur de la Banque. Inscrit au Registre de Contrôle N°1, au folio sur la ligne. ESSAI 29 OCTOBRE 1860. BARRE FECIT |
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The type 1862 succursales thousand-franc note was designed specifically for branch circulation — the succursales being the provincial offices Banque de France had been expanding aggressively since the 1848 centralisation of regional issuing banks. Each note was validated at a specific branch, making surviving examples traceable to particular cities, a detail that matters for provenance-conscious collectors.
Jacques-Jean Barre was chief engraver at the Paris Mint and brought medallic precision to the intaglio work. He died in 1855, meaning the plates were prepared before the window of issue — an unusually long lag between engraving and circulation for a high-denomination instrument.