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200 francs - Premier Empire français Napoléon Bonaparte
| Issuer | France |
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| Year | 2021 |
| Type | Fantasy banknote |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette reproducing Antoine-Jean Gros's painting of the meeting between Napoléon I and Emperor Francis II of Austria at Sarutschitz following the Battle of Austerlitz, after the Treaty of Pressburg (1805). The scene is surrounded by guilloche borders and the denomination panel "DEUX CENTS FRANCS" appears at upper left. |
| Reverse lettering | DEUX CENTS FRANCS 200 TRAITE DE PRESBOURG 1805 200 ÉCHANTILLON GABRISNOTE ANTOINE-JEAN GROS (1771-1835) ENTREVUE DE NAPOLÉON IER ET DE FRANCOIS II APRÈS LA BATAILLE D'AUSTERLITZ, 1812 GABRISNOTE 2021 |
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A privately produced fantasy note — not legal tender, never issued by the Banque de France, and bearing no official authorization. Gabris, a Slovak designer and engraver working in the French intaglio tradition, has produced a small body of these commemorative pieces aimed squarely at collectors who want to handle something that feels like a genuine period banknote without the cost of an authentic early 19th-century rarity. The Premier Empire never actually produced circulating notes in denominations formatted like this one; the real Banque de France issues of the Napoleonic period were plain, text-heavy documents, nothing like the engraved portrait notes that collectors tend to imagine.