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10 Livres
| Issuer | Intendance Générale des Colonies |
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| Year | 1795-1796 |
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| Currency | Livre Tournois (1721-1810) |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note on aged paper, with the heading ISLES DE FRANCE ET DE BOURBON in letterpress across the top, flanked by the note number and date 1796. The central text body states the bon pour dix livres obligation in full, referencing the règlement sur le papier monnoie of 28 July 1790, with a small floral or asterisk ornament at lower left. Three manuscript signatures appear at the foot, attributed respectively to the Contrôleur de la Marine, the Gouverneur-Général, and the Intendant-Général. |
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| Obverse lettering | ISLES DE FRANCE ET DE BOURBON BON POUR DIX LIVRES PAYABLES AU PORTEUR AUX TERMES DU RÈGLEMENT SUR LE PAPIER MONNOIE DU 28 JUILLET 1790, VALEUR REÇUE EN ORDONNANCES. BON POUR DIX LIVRES. Contrôleur de la Marine. Gouverneur-Général. Intendant-Général. |
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The Intendance Générale des Colonies issued this 10 Livres note during the period when metropolitan France was attempting to extend revolutionary monetary policy to its overseas territories — an experiment that worked poorly given the chronic shortage of hard currency already endemic to the colonial economy. These notes circulated across French Caribbean possessions at a moment when the assignat system was collapsing on the continent, and colonial confidence in paper money was, unsurprisingly, no better.
Survival rates are low. Colonial humidity, combined with the thin paper stocks typical of emergency colonial issues, means genuinely intact examples are rarely encountered.