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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1947 |
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| Size | 185 × 99 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note with the overprint 'LA RÉUNION' repeated twice in brown, with the denomination '1000' and the wording 'MILLE FRANCS' rendered in dark blue intaglio. Serial number and signature are printed in black. To the right, an allegorical vignette after Robert Poughéon depicts a woman representing metropolitan France gazing upon a West Indian woman set against a palm grove, symbolising the French Union. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse with a central vignette engraved by Robert Armanelli after William Fel, showing a Caribbean woman in traditional madras headdress before a canoe on water at sunset. At the lower portion, a blue cartouche carries the statutory anti-counterfeiting warning citing Article 139 of the Penal Code. |
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The Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer was established in 1944 specifically to manage currency across French overseas territories during and after the Liberation, replacing the wartime arrangements that had left different territories using incompatible monetary instruments. This 1000 Francs is among the higher-denomination notes in the CCFOM's postwar series, circulating across a wide geographic spread — from the Antilles to French Equatorial Africa — under a single issuing authority rather than territory-specific banks.
Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate and established decorative artist; his involvement reflects the Banque de France's consistent practice of commissioning serious fine-arts talent for engraved currency work rather than in-house draughtsmen.