Europe: France
France pick A66b: 10 Livres from 1792
24.10.1792. Like pA51. Watermark. RP-FR top left. X.
France pick 81: 50 Francs from 1934
15.11.1934-30.6.1937. Brown and multicolor. Ceres and Park of Versailles at left, reclining figure at right. Back: Mercury at right with caduceus. Signature title: LE CAISSIER PRINCIPAL.
France pick 83a: 5 Francs from 1939
13.7.1939-9.1.1941. Lilac. Woman wearing helmet at left. Back: Dock worker and sailing ship. With signature titles: LE CAISSIER GÉNÉRAL.
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.
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.
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.
France pick 98a: 5 Francs from 1943
2.6.1943-5.4.1945. Blue, green and multicolor. Pyrenean shepherd at right. Back: Woman and flowers.
France pick 100a: 20 Francs from 1942
12.2.1942-17.5.1944. Red and multicolor. Breton fisherman at right. Back: Two women at left center, Breton calvary statuary at right.
France pick 101a: 100 Francs from 1942
15.5.1942 - 14.12.1944. Multicolor. Descartes at right. Allegorical female reclining at left. Back: Angel.
France pick 102: 1000 Francs from 1942
28.5.1942-6.4.1944. Brown and multicolor. Ceres seated with Hermes at right. Back: Mercury.
France pick 115a: 5 Francs from 1944
1944. Blue and black on green underprint. Torch at left and right in green underprint. With text: EMIS EN FRANCE. Back: Tricolor in blue, white and red. Printer: Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., Boston. Replacement notes with X near serial number .
France pick 116a: 10 Francs from 1944
1944. Lilac and black on green underprint. Torch at left and right in green underprint. With Text: EMIS EN FRANCE. Back: Tricolor in blue, white and red. Printer: Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., Boston.
France pick 117a: 50 Francs from 1944
1944. Lilac and black on green and blue underprint. Text: EMIS EN FRANCE. Back: Blue on blue and red underprint. Printer: Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., Boston. Replacement notes with X near serial number .
France pick 123c: 100 Francs from 1944
1944. Similar to p118. Blocks p3-8. Numbered at Forbes; position of larger run number at left. is nearer to l. border.
France pick 127b: 50 Francs from 1947
20.3.1947-2.3.1950. Red, blue and multicolor. Leverrier at right. Back: Neptune and date 1846.
France pick 128d: 100 Francs from 1951
6.9.1951-1.4.1954. Brown, red and multicolor. Farmer with two oxen. Back: Man, woman and children at dockside. Watermark: Woman with hair parted on her left.
France pick 133a: 500 Francs from 1954
7.1.1954-4.8.1955. Blue, orange and multicolor. Building at left, Victor Hugo at right. Back: Hugo at left, Pantheon in Paris.
France pick 134a: 1000 Francs from 1953
2.4.1953-6.12.1956. Multicolor. Palais Cardinal across, Armand du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu at right. Back: Town gate (of Richelieu, in Indre et Loire) at right.
France pick 141a: 5 Nouveaux Francs from 1959
5.3.1959-5.11.1965. Blue, orange, and multicolored. Pantheon in Paris at left, Victor Hugo at right. Village at right, Victor Hugo at left on back.
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.
France pick 147b: 10 Francs from 1966
6.1.1966-6.4.1967. Red and multicolored. Paris Palais des Tuileries at center. Francois Voltaire at right and as watermark. Chateau de Cirey at right, Volataire at left on back.
France pick 149a: 100 Francs from 1964
2.4.1964-2.12.1965. Multicolored. Pierre Corneille at center, theater in Versailles in background. Pierre Corneille bust in cartouche at center, view of Rouen on back.
France pick 150b: 10 Francs from 1975
6.2.1975-4.12.1975. Red, brown, and olive. Hector Berlioz at right conducting in the Chapelle des Invalides. Berlioz at left, musical instruments at right and Rome\'s Villa Medici on back.
France pick 151a: 20 Francs from 1980
1980-1986. Dull violet, brown, and multicolored. Claude Debussy at right and as watermark, with sea scene (La Mer) in background. Back similar but with lake scene.
France pick 152d: 50 Francs from 1988
1988; 1989. Deep blue-black on multicolored underprint. Maurice Quentin de la Tour at center right and as watermark, and Palace of Versailles at left center in background on face. Maurice Quentin de la Tour and St. Quentin City Hall at center right in background on back.
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France pick 154f: 100 Francs from 1991
1991. Brown. Eugene Delacroix at left center and as watermark. Marianne holding tricolor, part of Delacroix\' painting La Liberte Guidant le Peuple at right. \'Cent Francs\' at upper left on face not just faint outline but has a fill color as well.
France pick 155c: 200 Francs from 1988
1988; 1989. Blue-green, yellow, and multicolored. Figure with staff at left, Charles Baron de Montesquieu at right and as watermark. Back similar but with Castle de Labrede on back (Montesquieu\'s birthplace).
France pick 156e: 500 Francs from 1979
7.6.1979-6.2.1986. Yellow-brown on dark brown. Tower of St. Jacques Church in Paris at left, Blaise Pascal at left center. Blaise Pascal at center, abbey of Port Royal on back.
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France pick 157Aa: 50 Francs from 1994
1998. Purple and dark blue on blue, green, and multicolored underprint. Drawing of le Petit Prince at left. Old airplane at top left, topographical map of Africa at center, Antoine de Saint-Exupery at right and as watermark. Breguet XIV biplane on back. Name as Exupery, not Exupery ol; new law clause on back. 8 cardinal points in compass solid. Underline al. in signature titles.
France pick 158a: 100 Francs from 1997
1997; 1998. Deep brown on orange, pink, and light green underprint. Paul Cezanne at right and as watermark. Painting of fruit on back.
France pick 159b: 200 Francs from 1996
1996; 1997. Brown and pink on multicolored underprint. Gustave Eiffel at right and as watermark, observatory at upper left center. Eiffel tower truss at center. View through tower base across exhibition grounds at left center on back.
France pick M1: 50 Centimes from 1917
ND (1917). Blue. Woman with child at left, soldier with dog at right. Back: RF monogram in shield at center. With French text: "up to the end of the second year after the armistice" on back.