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500 Francs - Charlotte
| Issuer | Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (Caisse Générale de l'État) |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Printer | Bradbury Wilkinson and Company, United Kingdom (1856-1990) |
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| Reverse description | Predominantly blue intaglio print on white paper. An architectural vignette occupying the left half presents a detailed view of the Grand Ducal Palace in Luxembourg City, rendered with fine line engraving. The right half is filled with an elaborate spirograph-style guilloche rosette in blue and gold tones, bordered by the denomination numeral at each corner. The title inscription runs across the upper margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 500 GRAND-DUCHÉ DE LUXEMBOURG 500 500 (Translation: Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg) |
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Bradbury Wilkinson's contract work for Luxembourg ran through several postwar decades, and this 1963 issue came late in that relationship — the firm's intaglio printing gave the series a crispness that cheaper lithographic alternatives couldn't match. The Caisse Générale de l'État, Luxembourg's state cashier rather than a central bank in the conventional sense, issued notes under its own authority until the Institut Monétaire Luxembourgeois absorbed those functions in 1983.
P#52A denotes a signature variant within the broader 52 series. Worth checking against the specific signatory pairing, as some combinations are considerably scarcer than others.