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127 francs Pieds Nickelés
| Issuer | Banque des Pieds Nickelés |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Designer(s) | René Pellos |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal fantasy note with a watercolour-style vignette of bare trees and a house in the background; at left, silhouettes of the three Pieds Nickelés characters running, and at centre-right a colour cartoon medallion of the trio. The bank title BANQUE DES PIEDS NICKELES appears in bold lettering along the lower edge, with the denomination numeral 127 in a tan cartouche at upper right and a promotional text panel at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 127 SPECIMEN Vents d'Ouest BANQUE DES PIEDS NICKELES Pour fêter la parution de l'inté- grale de leurs aventures dessi- nées par Pellos aux éditions Vents d'Ouest, Les Pieds Nickelés se sont offert une entourloupe de première : leur propre banque et leur monnaie de singe. N'hésitez plus, investissez dans les Pieds Nickelés et dans leurs aventures. |
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The Pieds Nickelés are a trio of lovable French comic strip swindlers — Croquignol, Filochard, and Ribouldingue — created by Louis Forton in 1908 and drawn by René Pellos from 1954 until his death in 1998. This note is a fantasy piece, a collector's novelty with no monetary function, issued as part of the broader French tradition of humorous fake currency tied to beloved cartoon properties. The denomination — 127 francs — is itself a joke, a deliberately absurd figure in keeping with the characters' chaotic schemes.
Pellos was in his eighties when this was produced, still working.