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French bank note, 50 Francs

French bank note, Banque de France, 50 Francs, issued on 19 May 1949. With a portrait of the French mathematician and astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811-1877) on the front, and Neptune on the back. Le Verrier took part in the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846

Picture No
10699039
Media ID
46539030
Size
4311px x 5627px (6.5MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library/Gill Stoker
Source
Original bank note in the Gill Stoker Collection
Date
1949

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1846 Astronomer Banking Banknote Banque Calculation Centenary Commemoration Commemorative Compasses Currency Fifty Franc Francs Math Mathematician Mathematics Maths Neptune Planets Poseidon Postwar Universe Urbain Verrier


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