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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 814729, member: 17469&quot;]Thanks for the info, Rickie. If putting this on the back of all the currency of the time means all those others wouldn&#039;t have seen the light of day, I&#039;m glad they put it back in the file cabinet! It&#039;s nice, but not at the cost of those others!</p><p><br /></p><p>The French note (that&#039;s the back) was drawn by Charles Walhain and engraved by Deloche. It was released in 1927 on a very fast track, as France was having a lot of trouble with counterfeits of its previous &quot;Rose et Bleu&quot; high denomination notes. So Walhain put this one together quickly. He was taken to task by his peers for the poor quality of the artwork, but one thing that did come out of it was a trend in French notes away from pure allegorical characters on banknotes, to putting more realistic characters on them. While the face is fairly traditional in its content, the back of the note shows Francois Aragos (astronomer) and Louis Pasteur on it, as well as a blacksmith.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dave[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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