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1000 Francs 'Département de la Réunion'
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1964 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Georges Hourriez Reverse: Robert Armanelli |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio-printed note with the overprint DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION repeated twice in brown. The central vignette, to the right, presents an allegorical composition representing the French Union, with a woman from metropolitan France turned toward a West Indian woman set against a palm grove background. The face value 1000 and the issuing authority inscription appear in dark blue, with serial numbering and signature in black. |
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| 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.) |
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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 Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer ceded that function. Réunion's notes were printed at the Banque de France's own workshops in Paris — the same facility producing metropolitan French currency — which kept production quality uniform across the republic but made these issues administratively distinct from the DOM's earlier colonial-era paper.
Postel-Vinay served as director general of the Caisse des Dépôts before his role here; Calvet was a career technocrat at the Treasury. Their paired signatures on this series date it firmly to the mid-1960s administrative structure before later signature changes updated the issue.