50 Livres Tournois

Issuer	Intendance Générale des Colonies
Year	1788
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Obverse description	A typeset letterpress note on cream hand-laid paper, enclosed within a decorative border of repeating ornamental units running along all four margins. The issuing authority is set in serif capitals across the upper portion, beneath which the body text states the denomination and legal basis — referencing the Édit du Roi of 10 June 1788 — in alternating roman and italic typefaces. The denomination CINQUANTE LIVRES appears in bold white reverse lettering within a solid black rectangular panel at centre, flanked in the lower register by the manuscript signatures of two colonial treasury officials: De Vaivre as Intendant général des Colonies at lower left, and Le Brasseur as Intendant général des fonds de la Marine & des Colonies at lower right.
Obverse lettering	ISLES DE FRANCE ET DE BOURBON. BILLET DE CINQUANTE LIVRES TOURNOIS, QUI AURA COURS AUX ISLES DE FRANCE ET DE BOURBON, CONFORMÉMENT À L'ÉDIT DU ROI, DU 10 JUIN 1788. CINQUANTE LIVRES. DE VAIVRE, INTENDANT GÉNÉRAL DES COLONIES. LE BRASSEUR, INTENDANT GÉNÉRAL DES FONDS DE LA MARINE & DES COLONIES.
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Signature(s)	De Vaivre and Le Brasseur
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