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500 Livres Assignat
| Issuer | Caisse de l'Extraordinaire, France |
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| Year | 1790-1791 |
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| Designer(s) | Designers: Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux, Pierre-Joseph Lorthior |
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| Obverse description | Upper left corner bears a circular vignette with a right-facing bust portrait of Louis XVI within a wreathed frame, signed GATTEAUX below; upper right corner contains a circular cartouche with three fleurs-de-lis surmounted by a laurel wreath. The body of the note carries two principal text blocks in letterpress: an upper panel with the decree authorization text referencing the Assemblée Nationale and the Royal sanction, and a lower panel with the payment obligation to the bearer, flanked by two rectangular value cartouches bearing the denomination 500 in mirror arrangement at lower left and right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows the obverse design in show-through, confirming the note is printed on one side only, with the blank verso displaying faint mirror impressions of the obverse letterpress text and vignettes visible through the thin paper stock; the surface is otherwise plain and unprinted. |
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| Protection description | Laid paper watermark with ornamental scrolls above and below a two-line inscription reading: OBLIGATION NATIONALE DE 500₶ / 1790 LA LOI ET LE ROI |
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