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| Emittent | Banque de France |
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| Jahr | 2001 |
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| Währung | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Material | Cotton paper |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Plain pink and orange guilloche underprint without a central vignette, serving as the colour trial backing. The diagonal red overprint "NO VALUE" appears across the surface, with the placeholder serial number "000" at lower right. |
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| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Watermark |
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| Anmerkungen |
This is a Banque de France internal specimen produced to showcase Maurice Ravel as a candidate design for the 200 euro denomination — a proposal that never advanced. The European Central Bank's eventual decision to use anonymous architectural motifs rather than national figures effectively killed every country-specific submission of this kind. France had a strong tradition of honoring composers and artists on its francs, and the Ravel pitch reflects that instinct colliding directly with the ECB's pan-European neutrality policy.
The watermark is the sole documented security feature on this échantillon, consistent with its status as a presentation sample rather than a production-ready proof. Guitou — the pseudonym of designer Guy Georget — had worked on late-series French franc notes before the euro transition made that entire body of work redundant.