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100 Livres Tournois
| Issuer | Intendance Générale des Colonies |
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| Year | 1780 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | ISLES de FRANCE & de BOURBON N° BON pour CENT Livres Tournois, valeur reçue en Ordonnance. Vu |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper with manuscript annotations in ink at the upper portion, including a handwritten note number, date, and an authorising signature, with scattered ink spots across the surface. |
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The Intendance Générale des Colonies issued this note under the authority of the French crown to address chronic specie shortages in the Caribbean colonies — Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Saint-Domingue all suffered from coins draining back to metropolitan France. Paper substitutes had been attempted since the card money experiments of the previous century, and this 1780 emission continued that uneasy tradition.
The livres tournois unit itself was already an anachronism by this date, abolished in metropolitan France by the Revolutionary reforms of 1795 — but colonial accounting clung to it well past its mainland death.