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. The overprint `COUNTER-VALUE OF 100 NEW FRANCS` is printed in red at the location of the watermark.
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
1000 | INSTITUT D’ÉMISSION DES DÉPARTEMENTS D`OUTRE-MER | 1000
RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
DÉPARTEMENT
DE LA RÉUNION
MILLE FRANCS
CONTRE VALEUR DE
20
NOUVEAUX FRANCS
LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL,
LE PRÉSIDENT DU CONSEIL
DE SURVEILLANCE,
DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION
R. POUGHEON FEC. HOURRIEZ SC. (Translation: Department of Reunion Issuing Institute Overseas Department French Republic Thousand Francs Coutervalue of 20 New Francs Department of Reunion)
Reverse lettering
DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION
1000 | INSTITUT D’ÉMISSION DES DÉPARTEMENTS D`OUTRE-MER | 1000
RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE
DÉPARTEMENT DE LA RÉUNION
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.)
