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5000 Francs 'La Réunion'
| Issuer | Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer |
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| Year | 1960 |
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| Size | 204 × 109 mm |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour intaglio and letterpress printing. Central vignette presents a pensive portrait bust of Victor Schoelcher, French journalist and abolitionist politician, set against a background vignette of a sea and mountain landscape. Schoelcher holds in his hand the parchment of the decree abolishing slavery in the French colonies. Issuing authority and denomination inscriptions frame the design, with engravers' and designer's credits at lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour printing. Central vignette presents a group of figures engaged in fruit picking, rendered in a naturalistic style. At lower portion, Article 139 of the French Penal Code — warning against counterfeiting or falsification of banknotes — is printed within a grey cartouche. Denomination and issuing authority inscriptions appear in the upper and lower margins. |
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The Institut d'Émission des Départements d'Outre-Mer was established in 1959 specifically to replace the Caisse Centrale de la France d'Outre-Mer as the currency authority for France's remaining overseas departments — Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and French Guiana. This note belongs to that transitional first issue. Robert Poughéon was a prominent French academic painter and illustrator, and his involvement reflects the Banque de France's consistent use of fine-arts figures for prestige denomination designs rather than relying solely on house engravers.
At 5000 francs, this was the highest denomination in the series before the 1960 French franc revaluation rendered such figures nominally obsolete almost immediately after issue.