5 NF - Victor Hugo Billet scolaire

The "billets scolaires" were produced by the Banque de France explicitly for classroom instruction — facsimiles distributed to students learning to identify genuine notes and spot forgeries. They were never legal tender and never intended to circulate, which is precisely why surviving examples in any condition are harder to find than many collectors expect; most were simply discarded at the end of the school term.

The 1960 date aligns with the introduction of the nouveau franc series, making this a training aid tied directly to the redenomination that replaced 100 old francs with 1 NF — a reform that genuinely confused the public and made financial literacy initiatives like this one briefly important.