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300 Francs Épreuve FRANCE 1938 F.29.00Ed UNC

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Estimate :	8 000 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	16 May 2017 14:14:58

Face Value : 300 Francs Épreuve

Date: (1938)

Period/Provinces/Banks Banque de France, XXe siècle

Catalogue reference : F.29.00Ed

Additional reference : P.087s

Signatures : Rousseau, Favre-Gilly

Commentary

Deux épreuves, une recto seul et une verso-recto, sur papier fiduciaire grandes marges, sans filigrane, collées sur une page cartonnée à fenêtres. Sans numérotation mais avec signatures. En marge, sur le recto et le verso, signature manuscrite du graveur E.Deloche.

Details

F.29 - 300 Francs

References Banque de France : BDF193802

Size: 88 x 138 mm

Date of creation/issue: 04 juin 1945

Issue: 06 octobre 1938 - 09 février 1939 (non daté)

Date of withdraw: 20 novembre 1950

End of legal tender: 01 janvier 1963

Obverse description : Portrait of Ceres

Reverse description : Portrait of Mercury

Watermark: Mercury's profile

Signatures : Le Caissier Général, Le Secrétaire Général (1 var.)

Alphabet - series : Letters A to W (I excepted), 25 letters, 1,000,000 notes per letter

Engraver Gravure : E.Deloche. Dessin : C.Serveau

Originally, the 300F was a 10F note designed to replace the 10F Minerve 1915. The imminence of war urged the Banque de France to print a higher face value. The decision was made to print a 300F on the same paper as the 10F 1915. The 300F was held in reserve and not circulated until 1945

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