Isles of France & of Bourbon

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500 Livres Tournois, 1788

This assignat is from the early French revolutionary era. Possibly a contemporary COUNTERFEIT.

Isles of France & of Bourbon, located in the Indian Ocean about 500 miles east of Madagascar, were at one time administered by France as a single colony. Isle of France, renamed Mauritius, became a British colony in 1810 until independent in 1968. Isle of Bourbon, renamed Reunion in 1793, remained a French possession and is now a French oversea department.

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