200 francs - Premier Empire français Napoléon Bonaparte

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.