FAUNA ON BANKNOTES - EUROPE: France
France pick 84a: 10 Francs from 1939
2.2.1939-5.3.1942. Blue. Minerva at upper left. Back: Sitting farm woman. With signature title: LE CAISSIER GÉNÉRAL.
Collectors Comment: dated 12.12.1940 rev.: birds
France pick 86b: 100 Francs from 1937
9.12.1937-14.9.1939. Multicolor. Minerva at upper left. Back: Sitting farm woman. With signature title: LE CAISSIER GÉNÉRAL. Thin or thicker paper.
Collectors Comment: date: 16/02/1939 obv.: sheep
France pick 93: 50 Francs from 1940
13.6.1940-15.5.1942. Brown, green and multicolor. Jacques Coeur at left. Back: Scene in Bourges, woman at right.
Collectors Comment: date: 13/06/1940 rev.: sheep, cows
France pick 94: 100 Francs from 1939
19.5.1939-23.4.1942. Brown and multicolor. Woman and child with background of Paris. Back: Maximilien de Béthune, Duc de Sully, looking over field scene with farm, castle, rivers.
Collectors Comment: dated: 28.12.1939 rev.: sheep
France pick 96a: 1000 Francs from 1940
24.10.1940-19.12.1940. Multicolor. Woman at left and right. Back: Blacksmith and Mercury.
Collectors Comment: obv.: rooster, butterflies d: 19.12.1940
France pick 102: 1000 Francs from 1942
28.5.1942-6.4.1944. Brown and multicolor. Ceres seated with Hermes at right. Back: Mercury.
Collectors Comment: obv.: goats; rev.: goat, lion, bull, wild boar (upper from left to right)
France pick 128c: 100 Francs from 1950
29.6.1950-16.11.1950. Brown, red and multicolor. Farmer with two oxen. Back: Man, woman and children at dockside. Watermark: Woman with hair parted on her left.
Collectors Comment: obv.: oxen
France pick 130b: 1000 Francs from 1948
11.3.1948-20.4.1950. Blue and multicolor. Minerva and Hercules at center. Back: Woman at center.
Collectors Comment: dated: 05/05/1948 obv.: doves
France pick 131a: 5000 Francs from 1949
10.3.1949-3.11.1949. Multicolor. Two allegorical figures (Sea and Countryside) at center. Back: Mercury and allegorical woman.
Collectors Comment: date: 10.3.1949 obv.: bull on vase
France pick 146b: 5 Francs from 1967
5.5.1967-8.1.1970. Brown, purple, and multicolored. Louis Pasteur at left, Pasteur Institute in Paris at right. Laboratory implements, man fighting a rabid dog, Pasteur at right on back.
Collectors Comment: date: 01/08/1968 rev.: sheep, hens, rooster, rabbits, dog