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6 Livres Tournois
| Issuer | Trésoriers Généraux des Colonies |
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| Year | 1768 |
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| Value | 6 Livres Tournois |
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| Obverse lettering | N.° [serial number] Isles de France & de Bourbon. Bon pour SIX LIVRES Tournois, payables au Porteur, en Lettre de change à fix mois de vue, sur les Trésoriers généraux des Colonies, en conformité de l'édit du mois de Juillet 1768. Vu Vu & contrôlé au Bureau du Contrôle de l'Isle de France. |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on aged hand-laid paper, showing heavy fold lines from circulation. A manuscript notation reading '50c' appears in ink at upper right, likely a later endorsement or accounting mark. No printed design elements or vignettes are present. |
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The Trésoriers Généraux des Colonies issued notes specifically to circulate in France's overseas colonial territories, not in metropolitan France — a structural distinction that mattered enormously for redemption. The 1768 series predates the Revolutionary assignat collapse by two decades, but colonial paper had already earned deep mistrust among merchants who had watched earlier colonial card money schemes in New France implode unpaid in the 1760 liquidation.
Hand-laid paper at this date means no watermark standardization; forgery was a persistent administrative complaint across all colonial note issues of this period. Surviving examples are rare enough that condition quibbling is largely academic.