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France banknotes
France paper money catalog and French currency history

• A brief monetary history:
  • Livre
  • Franc = (Livre), 1794-1803
  • Franc = 100 Centimes, from 1803
  • Franc = (100 old Franc) = 100 Centimes, 1960-2002
  • Euro = (6.56 Francs) = 100 Cents, from 2002

• For later issues see:
  • European Union, from 2002

• French Overseas Terrytories banknotes:
  • French Antilles (Guadeloupe, Guyana, Martinique)
    • Guadeloupe
    • Martinique
  • French Guiana
  • French Pacific Territories
    • French Oceania
    • New Caledonia
    • Tahiti
  • Reunion
  • Saint Pierre and Miquelon

• Former French colonies banknotes:
  • Algeria
  • Djibouti
  • French Equatorial Africa
  • French India
  • French Indochina
  • French Sudan
  • French West Africa
  • Lebanon
  • Madagascar
  • Morocco
  • New Hebrides
  • Syria
  • Tunisia

• To purchase French banknotes, please check our inventory :
  World banknotes countries A-Z

Pick #	Date
		Kingdom
A1	1701-10	25 - 10.000 Livres
A2	1716	30 - 10.000 Livres
A3-7	1716-7	10, 40, 100, 400, 1.000 Ecus
A12-5	1719-20	10, 100, 1.000, 10.000 Livres
A16-9	1720.01.01	10, 100, 1.000, 10.000 Livres
A20-1	1720.07.01	10, 100 Livres
A22-3	1720.09.02	10, 50 Livres
A24-7	1776-90	200, 300, 600, 1.000 Livres
A28-30	1789-90	200, 300, 1.000 Livres
A31-3	1790	6, 9, 30 Livres; intrest coupons
A34-A41	1790	50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 500, 2.000 Livres
A42-A48	1791	5, 50, 60, 100, 200, 300, 500 Livres
A49-A52	1791	5, 5, 10, 25 Livres
A53-A59	1792.1-4	10, 15, 25, 50 sols, 5, 50, 200 Livres
A60-A63	1792.6-8	5, 5, 50, 200 Livres
A64-A67	1792.10	10, 15 sols, 10, 25 Livres
A68-A71	1793	10, 15, 50 sols, 25 Livres
		Republic
A72-A73	1792	50, 400 Livres
A74-A76	(1793)	5, 125, 250 Livres
A77	(1794)	500 Livres
A78-A82	(1795)	100, 750, 1.000, 2.000, 10.000 francs
A83-A86	(1796)	25, 100, 250, 500 francs
A87	(1796)	5 francs
A88-93	(1796)	25, 50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
A94	(1793)	handwritten varios denominations in sous or livres
A94A-99	(1793-4)	10, 15 sous, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100 livres; bons de manlevrier
A100	(1794)	handwritten varios denominations in livres; bons de passage
A121	(1798)	25 francs; bons porteur
A131	(1799-80)	25 francs; bons porteur
		Third Republic
60-71	1871-1937	5, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 francs
72-80	1916-1937	5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 francs
81-91	1937-40	5, 10, 50, 100, 300, 500, 1.000, 5.000 francs
92-97	1937-40	20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 francs
98-103	1941-50	5, 10, 20, 100, 1.000, 5.000 francs
		Allied and French war issues
105-7	1943	100, 500, 1.000 francs; Allied Corsica issue
111-3	(1945)	500, 1.000, 5.000 francs; Algeria provisional issue
114-21	1944	2, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 francs; Allied Military Currency
122-6	1944	50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000 francs; Provisional French
		designs after World War 2
127-32	1945-57	50, 100, 500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 francs
133-5	1953-7	500, 1.000, 5.000, 10.000 francs
137-40	1958	5, 10, 50, 100 new francs; overprint
141-5	1959-66	5, 10, 50, 100, 500 new francs
146-9	1962-79	5, 10, 50, 100 francs
150-6	1968-97	10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 francs
157-160	1992-	50, 100, 200, 500 francs

Pick #	Date
		Occupation of Germany: Franco-Belgian Railways
R1-R10	(1923)	0.05, 0.10, 0.25, 0.50, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 francs
		Military WW1
M1-M5	(1917)	50 centimes, 1, 2 francs
		Military WW2; for occupied Germany and Austria
M6-M10	(1947)	5, 10, 50, 100, 1.000 francs; "TRESOR FRANCAIS"
M11-M13	(1955)	100, 1.000, 5.000 francs; "TRESOR PUBLIC"
M14-M15	(1960)	5, 10, 50 new francs
		Military; Suez War 1956
M16-M18	(1956)	50, 100, 1.000 francs
		FRANCE; general issue for captured German soldiers
c2010-3	(1945)	1, 5, 10, 50 francs
		FRANCE; Vichy fund rising "Solidarite" notes for French soldiers, prisoners of the war interned in foreign countries
c2322-32	(194-)	0.50, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500, 1.000 francs

		FRENCH PRIVATE BANKS
		- Achille Adam, Banquier
s101-2	18--	20, 100 francs
		- Banque de Bordeaux
s103-9	1818-1848	100, 200, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque Commerciale du Havre
s110	18--	100 francs
		- Banque du Dijon
s111-3	1839	250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque du Havre
s121-7	1837-1848	50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque du Lille
s121-7	1836-1848	100, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque de Limoges
s141-7	1848	25, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque de Marseille
s151-8	1836-1848	50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque de Nantes
s161-3	1818-1848	250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque d'Orlans
s171-5	1838-1848	25, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque de Rouen
s176-86	1807-1848	50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque Rouennaise
s188-9	1871	5, 10 francs
		- Banque Territoriale, Paris
s201-5	1799-1803	50, 100, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Banque de Toulouse
s209-15	1838-1848	100, 200, 250, 500, 1.000 francs
		- Caisse du Commerce, Paris
s218	1792	25 Livres
		- Caisse de Comptes Courants
s221-2	1795	500, 1.000 francs
		- Caisse d'Echange, Caen
s226	1800	400 sols
		- Caisse d'Echange, Orlans
s231-3	1801	25, 50, 100 francs
		- Caisse d'Echange des Monnaies, Paris
s236-7	1801	12.50, 25 francs
		- Caisse d'Echange des Monnaies, Rouen
s241-6	1797-1803	400 slos, 20, 100 francs
		- Caisse d'Escompte du Commerce, Paris
s253-4	1797-1803	500 francs
		- Comptoir Commercial, Paris
s261-5	1800-1803	200, 250, 300, 500, 1.000 francs

		MILLITARY
		- Siege of Lyon
s301-4	(1793)	25, 50 sous, 5, 20 Livres