5 Livres Tournois

The Caisse Publique de l'Isle de la Réunion was a local emergency institution, not a formal central bank — its notes were stop-gap instruments issued during the disruption of regular French colonial finance caused by the Revolutionary Wars. By 1795, maritime commerce between France and its Indian Ocean territories had become dangerously unreliable, and specie had largely disappeared from local circulation. The Caisse filled the gap.

Local printing meant hand-press production with whatever materials were available on the island. Typographic consistency across the P#7A series is notoriously poor, and genuine examples can show significant variation in ink density and impression depth — not errors, just the reality of colonial workshop printing under supply constraints.