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Test Note De La Rue Systems Ltd
| Issuer | De La Rue Systems Ltd |
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| Printer | De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date) |
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| Obverse lettering | DE LA RUE SYSTEMS LTD TEST NOTE NO VALUE |
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| Reverse lettering | DE LA RUE SYSTEMS LTD TEST NOTE NO VALUE |
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De La Rue produced test notes — sometimes called "specimen blanks" or house specimens — primarily for internal quality control, sales demonstrations, and calibration of currency-handling machinery. This example would have been used to test sorting, counting, or authentication equipment without committing actual security-printed currency to the process. They were never intended for circulation and carry no legal tender status anywhere.
Cotton substrate on a test note is deliberate: machine manufacturers and bank procurement officers needed material that behaved identically to real currency stock during trials.