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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 847581, member: 17469&quot;]Wonderful close-ups of the watermarks, Krispy! I don&#039;t think I&#039;ve ever seen such good images, especially those with the side light that shows the embossing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The sizes of the notes correlate directly to the sizes of the various banknotes in use at the time - ie a test note for the 50F, the 100F, etc. There are several more French echantillon notes you might keep an eye out for. Here is the Maurice Ravel one, later than the one of Athena you picture. The watercolor behind the engraving is wonderful on this, I think. There is also a pink-colored echantillon; I can&#039;t remember off the top of my head who is on that note.</p><p><br /></p><p>Dave</p><p><br /></p><p>PS, thanks very much for all the recent posts on foreign notes. I have a couple nice items coming in the mail and will try to help encourage the foreign discussion to CoinTalk with them...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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