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100 Francs
| Issuer | Trésor Public |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Size | 116 × 75 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a bust of Mercury in three-quarter view, wearing a winged helmet and a laurel branch over the right shoulder and an olive branch over the left shoulder. The denomination numeral "100" appears on both sides of the portrait, with the full bilingual legend arching across the note. The design is executed in intaglio style characteristic of Banque de France production. |
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| Reverse lettering | 100 | 100 LE CONTREFACTEUR SERA PUNI DES PEI- NES PREVUES PAR LA LOI. |
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| Comments |
The Trésor Public franc notes issued for use in France during the mid-1950s were military script in all but name — intended for Allied personnel and administered through a parallel channel to prevent occupation-era currency manipulation from recurring. The P#M11 series sits in that uneasy postwar administrative zone where the Finance Ministry, not the Banque de France, held issuing authority, yet the Banque's own presses and engravers did the work.
Beltrand and Broutin were among the most accomplished intaglio engravers working in Paris at the time. Their presence on a note of this type reflects how seriously France took even its auxiliary currency production.