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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 8102174, member: 17469&quot;]Definitely a piece of art. I&#039;m only reading from the catalog here, so my apologies for not really knowing the details. Flameng actually designed the piece and it was engraved in 1897. Then at the end of WWI it was printed, but deemed not up to par in a security sense because it was printed on non-watermarked paper. Finally it was reprinted and released in 1938 &quot;because it was deemed too important to sit in reserve&quot;. As there was a current 5000F note at the time (the Victoire) I suspect this was a bit much (large, more complicated process than they wanted), it was just released just for that one month. I suppose one could call it an early numismatic collector&#039;s item, except they did circulate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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