₣100 — One Hundred Francs
The artwork
Front: Paul Cézanne, dated 1839–1906 beside his name, in deep russet against an orange ground, with the great 100 filling the lower right. To the left, drawn in flat green, blue and yellow, two seated card players at a table with a bottle between them — Cézanne's own Joueurs de cartes. A pale country house sits at top left, above a green foil patch, with 100 Cent Francs reading up the edge.
Back: A Cézanne still life fills the left two-thirds: apples and oranges heaped on a wooden table, the pale yellow-green fruit set against the strong orange, all in his blocky, flattened manner. At lower right, a painter in a smock sits at his easel in green and orange, and above him a segmented colour wheel. The year 1998 and the serial J 050684946 are printed plainly.
In circulation
Part of the final franc family introduced from 1997, replacing the Delacroix 100 francs. It circulated only a few years: French franc notes lost legal tender status in February 2002 with the arrival of euro cash, though the Banque de France exchanged them for a further decade.
Details
- CurrencyFranc (₣)
- DenominationOne Hundred Francs
- Collectedon the France journeys, 1991–2019
- IssuerBanque de France
- SeriesCézanne, final franc series (1997–2001)
- SignatureLe Secrétaire Général, Le Contrôleur Général and Le Caissier Général
- Dimensions133 × 80 mm
- PrinterBanque de France
- SecurityGreen iridescent foil patch at upper left; letter-and-nine-digit serial, here J 050684946