Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dave M, post: 966596, member: 17469&quot;]<font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Had a nice package show up in the mail this morning from France. These notes extend my series of <a href="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/articles/BEAC-common-designs.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/articles/BEAC-common-designs.php" rel="nofollow">Common Designs from the BEAC</a> (Banque des Etats de l&#039;Afrique Centrale) that I posted an article about a couple months ago. This is a series of notes for the Central African States which were all designed by an artist named Raymond Vaudiau. A note in each of four denominations was issued for each of the five countries. The face of each note is different, with design depicting something relevant to that country, and the backs of each denomination are the same for all the notes. They were printed by Banque de France, as usual with a color lithograph overlaid with intaglio.</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Cameroon 5000F</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><img src="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/frprints/images/cm-P-17c-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><img src="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/frprints/images/cm-P-17c-b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Cameroon 10,000F</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><img src="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/frprints/images/cm-P-18a-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><img src="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/frprints/images/cm-P-18a-b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2">Congo 5000F</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><img src="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/frprints/images/cg-P-4c-a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><img src="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/frprints/images/cg-P-4c-b.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="2"></font></font>Here&#039;s a blow-up of the vignette from the 5000F Cameroon note for those of you interested in railroads. I thought this was a pretty cool piece of machinery (and the artwork isn&#039;t bad either):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.frenchbanknotes.com/images/cm-P-17c.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Dave[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in