Live auction - 4130024 - 1000 Francs CÉRÈS ET MERCURE Épreuve FRANCE 1927 F.37.00Ec
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Estimate : | 3 500 € |
Price : | 2 000 € |
Maximum bid : | 2 000 € |
End of the sale : | 16 May 2017 14:15:28 |
bidders : | 1 bidder |
Face Value : 1000 Francs CÉRÈS ET MERCURE Épreuve
Date: (1927)
Period/Provinces/Banks Banque de France, XXe siècle
Catalogue reference : F.37.00Ec
Additional reference : P.079s
Commentary
Deux épreuves unifaces (recto seul et verso seul), sur papier fiduciaire grandes marges, sans filigrane, collées sur deux pages cartonnées à fenêtres. Sans signatures, date ou numérotation. En marge signature manuscrite du graveur : E.Deloche sur le recto et le verso.
Details
F.37 - 1000 Francs CÉRÈS ET MERCURE
References Banque de France : BDF192702
Size: 130 x 235 mm
Date of creation/issue: 02 janvier 1929
Issue: 11 février 1927 - 30 juin 1937
Date of withdraw: 19 mai 1944
End of legal tender: 04 juin 1945
Obverse description : Ceres and Mercury. Two children symbolizing Agriculture (left), and Trade (right)
Reverse description : Allegory of the Banque de France ("la Sagesse fixe la Fortune" [Wisdom fixes Fortune]). A blacksmith and André-Marie Ampère, a painter and Louis Pasteur
Watermark: Ceres and Mercury in profile
Signatures : Le Contrôleur Général, Le Caissier Principal, Le Secrétaire Général (3 var.)
Alphabet - series : 1 to 2964, 25 letters, 1,000 notes per letter
Engraver Gravure : E.Deloche. Dessin : C-A.Walhain
This note has never been found in UNC.
The rare examples in AU typically come from small finds: F.37.01 alph.C.184, F.37.07 alph.D.1768 and X.1906 and F.37.10 alph.Y.2916 and O.2955