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500 French Francs Banknote (Five Hundred Francs France / 1983) Obverse and Reverse
Banque de France: Cinq Cents Francs 500 Fr
Issued by: Banque de France
Mint: Monnaie de Paris
Obverse: Portrait of Blaise Pascal, mathematician, physicist and French writer born in Clermont-Ferrand in 1623, died in Paris in 1662; Saint Jacques church tower in Paris.
Reverse: Portrait of Blaise Pascal identically framed on both sides of the bank note by a colombier of Abbey of Port Royal and the Chapel of the Abbey, where Pascal retired in 1655 and gave a lecture in 1658 in terms of his work "Apologie" (Apology of the Christian Religion); Port Royal Abbey in Paris.
Watermark: Death mask of Pascal.
Issued: 1983
Frech Currency Value: 500 Fr
Symbol: F Fr
Size: 183 x 98 mm