France currency banknotes 100 French Francs banknote of 1991, Eugene Delacroix - Liberty Leading the People. French paper money notes collection.
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The EURO has replaced the French Franc as the official currency in France in 2002.
Euro exchange rate: 100 francs are the equivalent of 15 euros 24 euro cents (fixed rate of 6.55957 francs for 1 euro).
Obverse: Self-portrait by Eugene Delacroix with his palette and brushes at the foreground, detail of the Delacroix painting Liberty Leading the People - "La Liberté Guidant le Peuple" (1830), Louvre,Paris.
Reverse: the same self-portrait Delacroix holding a quill pen and writing his famous diary. In the background - The place de Furstenberg is famous as one of the most charming squares in Paris, where Delacroix worked and lived at 6 Rue de Furstenberg while he was commissioned to paint murals for nearby St. Sulpice. This was the painter's last apartment.
Watermark: Portrait of Eugène Delacroix.
The dominant colors are brown and orange.
Its dimensions are 160 mm x 85 mm.
Printed by Banque de France from 1978 to 1995.
The banknote was designed by Lucien Fontanarosa and was engraved by Henri Renaud, Jacques and Jacques Combet Jubert.
The 100 French francs Delacroix created by the Banque de France March 24, 1978 and issued on 2 August 1979. This bill replaces the 100 francs bank note Corneille and will be replaced by the 100 francs Cézanne.
This note printed polychrome intaglio belongs to the second major series of "famous scientists and artists" commissioned by the Banque de France and which include Berlioz, Debussy, Quentin de La Tour, Pascal and Montesquieu.
It was the first French note to be produced with embossed marks (rectangles and points), in order to thwart counterfeiting and enable the blind to read.
The 100 francs Delacroix series, gradually being withdrawn from circulation from 1 February 1999 and ceased to be legal tender from 31 January 2009: after this date 100 francs Delacroix can no longer be exchanged against the euro.