Multicolor. The overprint `DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION` repeated twice is printed in brown. The wording and the value `1000` in numbers and letters are printed in dark blue. Numbering and signature are printed in black. On the right, the symbol of the French Union with a woman from metropolitan France looking at a West Indian woman in front of a palm grove.
Reverse description
Multicolor. Caribbean woman wearing a madras in front of a canoe sailing at sunset. At the bottom of the back, article 139 of the Penal Code is printed in a blue cartouche.
Signature(s)
Protection type
Protection description
Obverse lettering
DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION
RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
1000
INSTITUT D’ÉMISSION DES DÉPARTEMENTS D`OUTRE-MER
MILLE FRANCS
DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION
R. POUGHEON FEC. HOURRIEZ SC. (Translation: Department of Reunion French Republic Issuing Institute Overseas Department Thousand Francs Department of Reunion)
Reverse lettering
DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION
RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
1000
INSTITUT D’ÉMISSION DES DÉPARTEMENTS D`OUTRE-MER
DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION
L`ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT
DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS CEUX QUI AURONT CONTREFAIT OU FALSIFIÉ
LES BILLETS DE BANQUE AUTORISÉES PAR LA LOI
W. FEL FEC. R. ARMANELLI SC. (Translation: Department of Reunion French Republic Issuing Institute Overseas Department Article 139 of the Penal Code punishes forced Labor those who have counterfeited or falsified banknotes authorized by Law.)