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50 Numismas - Honoré de Balzac
| Issuer | Banco de Kamberra |
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| Year | 2020-2022 |
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| Designer(s) | Franck Medina |
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| Obverse description | Left-centre vignette of Honoré de Balzac in three-quarter bust, rendered in intaglio-style engraving against a warm ochre and brown underprint; to the right, a scene illustrating the short story The Unknown Masterpiece, with an artist at an easel and figures in an atelier interior, alongside a circular dry-stamp watermark area. Balzac's facsimile signature appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Banco de Kamberra 50 De Balzac © FRANCK MEDINA 2020 |
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Banco de Kamberra is a fantasy issuer with no sovereign or territorial authority — these notes are artist's pieces, not circulating currency or official commemoratives. The "Numisma" denomination exists nowhere in any monetary system. Franck Medina, a French designer, produces this series as collectible artwork trading on the aesthetic conventions of banknote design rather than functioning within them.
Dry stamp is the only listed security feature, which tells you exactly what this is: an art object dressed as currency. Balzac's inclusion fits Medina's broader pattern of placing French literary and cultural figures into the series.