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25 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la Réunion |
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| Year | 1876-1908 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE de la RÉUNION. IL SERA PATÉ EN ESPÈCES, À VUE, AU PORTEUR, vingt-cinq francs. Le Directeur, Un des Censeurs, |
| Reverse description | The reverse is a mirror-image impression printed in blue, showing the full text and design bleeding through from the obverse on this single-sided typographic note, with no independent reverse design; the sheet displays the back of the intaglio-engraved ornamental border, corner vignettes, and central lettering in reverse as seen through the translucent cotton paper. |
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Banque de la Réunion was established by imperial decree in 1851 as one of France's colonial issuing banks, and this 25 Francs note belongs to a series that remained in nominal circulation for over three decades — an unusually long run that reflects the island's economic isolation and the sheer cost of commissioning replacement issues from metropolitan France.
Notes of this type were frequently re-signed and re-dated as successive administrateurs cycled through, making signature combinations a primary tool for dating individual specimens more precisely than the broad series range suggests.