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100 Francs 'La Réunion'
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Size | 164 × 88 mm |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour intaglio reverse centred on a classical female portrait in right profile, rendered in warm tones with an ornate drop earring and draped red garment. To the left, a sweeping tropical mountain landscape with a valley and palm trees forms the background vignette, with a decorative architectural cartouche at lower left enclosing the anti-counterfeiting legal warning text. The 'LA RÉUNION' overprint appears in brown across the centre, with engravers' credits 'W. FEL FEC.' and 'G. REGNIER SC.' in the lower margin corners. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.