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10 Livres
| Issuer | Intendance Générale des Colonies |
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| Year | 1795-1796 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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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. |
| Reverse description | Blank reverse of plain unprinted paper, now heavily aged and stained, with visible fold lines, small holes, and foxing consistent with extended circulation and age. |
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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.