France: Rare Banque de France Specimen Print “500 Francs Renaissance” – “LINOGRAVURE”, this technique showing “white areas” which are the printed areas later in the final result print. That means the white parts show the areas which are engraved and enable the printer to see where the engraving has errors before printing the note. The ink on the plate only covers the “not engraved” areas so the whole print looks like a “negative” version of the later finished print. Printed on NON-UV active 80g security paper. Condition: UNC.