10 Nouveaux Francs

The Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer was created in 1959 specifically to handle currency for France's overseas departments — Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion, and French Guiana — following the conversion from old to new francs under de Gaulle's 1960 redenomination. This note belongs to the immediate post-conversion window, when "nouveaux francs" terminology was still mandatory on all French-system issues before the qualifier was quietly dropped in 1963.

Printed by the Banque de France's own workshops in Paris, the series used the same production infrastructure as metropolitan French notes, which kept security standards high but also meant the overseas departments had no local control over their own note supply.