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1 Franc
| Issuer | Banque de la Réunion |
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| Year | 1943 |
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| Currency | Franc (1942-1975) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE LA RÉUNION LE DIRECTEUR 1F |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in shades of blue and black with a light tropical foliage vignette as underprint across the central field. Numeral '1' appears in four bold black corner blocks, and the denomination 'UN FRANC' is set in large bold capitals at the base. The central inscription records the legal authorization for the issue. |
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The 1943 Banque de la Réunion 1 Franc (P#34) belongs to a wartime emergency series issued after the fall of France left Réunion — then a colony — effectively cut off from metropolitan banking supply chains. The island had declared for Free France in 1942, which complicated any dealings with Vichy-aligned institutions and made resupply of printed currency from France impossible.
These small-format fractional notes were a stopgap, and most saw heavy use in a tight local economy. Survivors in clean condition are harder to find than the catalog frequency suggests.