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De La Rue Giori - Varinota Specimen/Test note
| Uitgever | De La Rue Giori S.A. |
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| Drukker | De La Rue Giori S.A. |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Intaglio-printed vignette at right centre of Ludwig van Beethoven in three-quarter portrait, quill pen in hand, with a grand piano rendered in a contrasting reddish-brown underprint behind him. Geometric guilloche panels appear at lower left and at right, with a multicolour latticework pattern in green and red at the far right margin. The issuer's name in green Gothic script runs across the upper left, with SPECIMEN overprinted in bold letterpress at centre and VARINOTA in green at lower right. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Reverse unprinted, showing only the faint blind impression of the obverse intaglio printing visible as an offset ghost through the paper, with no deliberate design elements applied to this side. |
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| Opmerkingen |
De La Rue Giori produced Varinota specimens as internal demonstration pieces — not currency, never tendered, never redeemed. Their purpose was to showcase the firm's intaglio, letterpress, and security printing capabilities to prospective central bank clients. The Varinota name itself referred to the range of variable-element features the press could combine on a single sheet, useful for sales pitches to governments evaluating new note series.
Rollins collectors prize these precisely because no two configurations are identical. The specimens exist outside any national monetary history entirely.