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25 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de la Réunion |
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| Year | 1876-1908 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in blue on white cotton paper, the obverse is framed by an elaborate intaglio-engraved ornamental border with floral and foliate vignettes at each corner. The heading 'BANQUE de la RÉUNION.' is set in bold letterpress across the upper centre, flanked by two oval text medallions containing regulatory fine-print. A large central text panel bears the promise of payment 'IL SERA PATÉ EN ESPÈCES, À VUE, AU PORTEUR,' surmounted by the denomination in large script lettering 'vingt-cinq francs.' Signature lines for Le Directeur and Un des Censeurs appear at the lower centre, with a perforated cancellation visible through the note. |
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| 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.