p09_0434 - 300 Francs FRANCE 1938 F.29.01Spn

PAPIER MONNAIE 9 (2006)
Starting price : 2 400.00 €
Estimate : 3 000.00 €
Realised price : 2 769.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 3 889.00 €

Face Value : 300 Francs

Date: (06 octobre 1938)

Period/Provinces/Banks Banque de France, XXe siècle

Catalogue reference : F.29.01Spn

Additional reference : P.087s

Alphabet - series : O n° 0.000.000

Signatures : Favre-Gilly, Rousseau

Commentary

SPECIMEN, perforé SPECIMEN, avec filigrane et surchargé SPECIMEN N°0015.
SPECIMEN, perforated SPECIMEN, with watermark and overprinted SPECIMEN N°0015

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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