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| Emittent | Caisse Publique, Isle de Bourbon |
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| Jahr | 1793 |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on cream paper stock, enclosed within a single-rule rectangular border. The heading ISLE DE BOURBON is set in large capitals at the top, followed by the italic subtitle Papier de confiance et d'échange, with the body text detailing the denomination and redemption terms in a mixed roman and italic typeface. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, with a handwritten serial number inscribed in the upper left. |
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| Vorderseitenlegende | ISLE DE BOURBON. Papier de confiance et d'échange. BON pour Quarante Sols Tournois, remboursables à volonté, en billets-monnoïe déposés dans es caisses publiques, en exécution de l'arrêté de l'Assemblée Coloniale, du 11 avril 1793 approuvé le 13 du même mois. (Translation: Bourbon Island. Trust and exchange paper. Good for forty Sols Tournois, redeemable at will, in banknotes deposited in the public fund, in execution of the decree of the Colonial Assembly, of April 11, 1793 approved on the 13th of the same month.) |
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The Isle de Bourbon — present-day Réunion — was effectively cut off from metropolitan France by British naval dominance in the Indian Ocean during the Revolutionary period. The Caisse Publique issues of 1793 were a direct response to the resulting coin shortage; hard currency had dried up almost entirely on the island, and local authorities improvised emergency assignat-style notes to keep commerce moving.
The P#A3 is one of the earliest documented paper issues from any French colonial possession during the First Republic, which makes it genuinely rare in the philatelic and numismatic record — not because of low surviving numbers alone, but because colonial emergency issues from this period were rarely systematically catalogued at all.