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100 Francs - Charlotte facing right
| Issuer | Banque Internationale à Luxembourg S.A. |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Currency | Franc (1854-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Green and purple intaglio print on a light underprint. At centre, an oval crowned vignette frames a portrait of Grand-Duchess Charlotte facing right; rural farm scenes flank the oval on both sides. The border is composed of fine guilloche work with the denomination and bank title inscribed around the central vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE INTERNATIONALE À LUXEMBOURG S.A. 100 CENT FRANCS (Translation: International Bank of Luxembourg One Hundred Francs) |
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Bradbury, Wilkinson printed this note at their New Malden works, and the pairing of Nina Victorine Lefèvre-Kestler on the obverse design with Julien Lefèvre on the reverse is a family connection — Julien Lefèvre was a prominent Luxembourg engraver whose name appears across multiple BIL issues of the period.
The "facing right" designation in the series title distinguishes this from the earlier Charlotte facing left issue, a distinction that matters for collectors since the two types overlap in circulation years. The BIL, founded in 1856, functioned as Luxembourg's de facto central bank for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century before the Banque Centrale du Luxembourg was established in 1998 — this 1956 note falls well within the period when the BIL held that quasi-central role.