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100 Francs - type 1848 final to italics
| Issuer | Banque de France |
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| Year | 1861 |
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| Size | 180 x 110 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE FRANCE. PARIS, 16 Mai 1861. cent francs. Le Caissier Principal Le Contrôleur LE SECRÉTAIRE GÉNÉRAL GALLE F. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The type 1848 100 Francs series had an unusually long production run, remaining in issue well into the Second Empire despite originating under the Second Republic. The "final to italics" designation refers to a typographic shift in the denomination text — a modification introduced incrementally across printings rather than as a clean series break, which makes precise dating of individual examples genuinely difficult.
André Galle died in 1844, meaning the engraving attributed to him here was inherited from earlier plate work — the Banque de France routinely retained and reused intaglio plates across decades. Normand similarly predates this specific issue by many years.