e-Billets 2, closing May 20th- 2:00 PM (GMT+1)

Go exploring French banknotes with e-Billets 2, the new paper currency live auction organized by cgb.fr!

With e-Billets 2 you will discover more than 400 lots of banknotes from the Banque de France. These 19th and 20th century banknotes have been carefully selected for their rarity, their distinctive features or their quality.

 (lot 4020001, épreuve essai 100 Francs 1860)    

  (lot 4020079 - 100 Francs Rose et Bleu 1906)

Each main theme of French banknotes collection will be dealt with: 19th c. rarities, 20th c. rare dates and qualities, specimens, patterns and proofs, and also satellite collections, such as forgery and error notes, small and big numbers, etc. The variety of lots offered for sale should enable a wide number of collectors to fill in gaps, complete series and discover rare documents as well as hitherto unseen variants.

(lot 4020108, 500 Francs SCIENCE ET PHILOSOPHIE (1931), Pattern without filigree, large size. XF. Starting price)

(lot 4020080, 100 Francs LUC OLIVIER MERSON avec LOM (1908), Pattern without filigree)

Although this catalogue is rather non-specialized, it will make you discover, among other things, an exceptional series of error notes. You will find a total of more than 90 lots of several face values covering the whole array of possibilities of this subspecialty: single-side notes, notes with extra paper or without intaglio print, misaligned notes, and even an exceptional 500 Francs Pascal with an inverted watermark.

Error banknotes captivate more and more paper currency collectors. Given that the Banque de France has always displayed the utmost strictness in its work, errors have been rare, quickly spotted and corrected. As for banknotes, they were destroyed and replaced (usually by new prints bearing the letter W).

(lot 4020258, 20 Francs DEBUSSY (1983), Error note, numbers, signatures and date are missing)

(lot 4020423, 200 Francs EIFFEL (1995), SPECIMEN perforated overloaded SPECIMEN n°0069)

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