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100 Francs 'La Réunion'
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1960 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note issued by the Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer, bearing a portrait vignette of Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais at centre, with the sailing vessel La Bourdonnais at left and a native couple at right. A double brown letterpress overprint reading 'LA RÉUNION' appears across the top and bottom centre margins, applied over the original design of the underlying P#45 type. Engravers' signatures 'W. FEL FEC.' and 'R. ARMANELLI SC.' appear in the lower margin. |
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The Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer was established in 1959 specifically to handle currency for France's overseas departments after the reform of the franc zone. This note, one of the first issued under that mandate for Réunion, was engraved by two of the Banque de France's most accomplished taille-douce specialists working the period — Armanelli on the face, Régnier on the reverse — a division of labor typical of the Paris atelier's production method but rarely with both names this well documented.