David Yapp Banknotes

1943 saw the Bank of France print and issue it’s smallest banknote ever, – the 1943-1947 Five Francs. The obverse portrays a Pyrenean shepherd, and the reverse features a young lady with dress a la Aquitane, embowered with flora. The bank commissioned the Parisian artist Clement Serveau, (1886-1972), to execute the note. Serveau at the [...]

One of the smaller varieties on some issues of United States paper money between 1938 and the early 1950s is the so called “mule”. All notes bear obverse and reverse plate check numbers, usually on the bottom right hand side. Up to 1937 these were micro numbers, 0.6mm high. From 1938 the Bureau of Engraving [...]