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turtleoverhead Pillar of the Community Australia 585 Posts	Posted 12/07/2010 06:52 am The island RÃ©union is an overseas dÃ©partement of France and therefore since 2002, the unit of currency is the Euro. Is that a same Euro as in France or do they have a different design? Report this Post to the Staff

redlock Pillar of the Community Germany 992 Posts	Posted 12/07/2010 07:12 am There are no different Euro designs for RÃ©union or any other french oversea dÃ©partement (or whatever the status of those places is). Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 12/07/2010 08:16 am The only French territories / colonies to retain their own currency are the Pacific Ocean ones: New Caledonia, French Polynesia and Wallis & Futuna; these use the CFP franc (though Wallis & Futuna doesn't have it's own coinage). All the other inhabited French territories (St Pierre & Miquelon, Martinique, Guadeloupe, French St Martin, St Barts, French Guiana, Reunion, and Mayotte) were using the French franc when France adopted the euro, so they all adopted the euro at the same time, by default. France is not alone in owning territories outside of "Europe" but inside the Eurozone. Portugal owns the Azores and Madeira and Spain owns the Canary Islands and two exclaves in Morocco. The Dutch Caribbean territories, however, currently use the Netherlands Antilles guilder, which will shortly be replaced on some of the islands by the US dollar rather than the euro. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
brokencompass Valued Member United States 451 Posts	Posted 12/09/2010 06:53 am As far as I know, there is no specific design for the French colony euro. All euro coins have a common side, and a national side chosen by the issuing bank. I believe these Islands might be using coins with the French Euro design. Report this Post to the Staff
thai-vic Pillar of the Community Thailand 1509 Posts	Posted 12/09/2010 07:59 am Any Euro from any country is valid anywhere within the Eurozone. I can't see it being any different on Reunion. If a holidaymaker turned with coins issued by Germany, say, then they should be accepted there. Report this Post to the Staff
chrisild Pillar of the Community Germany 1238 Posts	Posted 12/10/2010 07:41 am Due to its geographic location, RÃ©union was actually the first place on earth where the euro was introduced (in Jan-1999) and where the euro cash became legal tender (in Jan-2002). And yes, since RÃ©union is part of the French Republic, they don't have "their own" euro coins. As for the Caribbean islands, that is an interesting situation. Aruba for example (an autonomous part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands) uses the florin which is pegged to the US dollar. The Netherlands Antilles - which ceased to exist as a political entity about a month ago - never used the euro either but had the (Antilles) gulden which also was a "dollar in disguise". Now that the Neth. Antilles have "split up", the successors plan to do away with the USD pegged Antillean Guilder, and use USD cash only. The Caribbean island of St. Martin is partly French (Saint-Martin) and partly Dutch (Sint Maarten). The French part uses the euro, the Dutch part is dollarized. Back to the original question, if anybody wants a "RÃ©union coin", there is a â‚¬10 collector coin now: As RÃ©union is also one of the 26 French "rÃ©gions", it is also part of the French Regions series, just like Burgundy or Normandy. See http://www.lequotidien.re/actualite...reunion.html These silver coins are not circulation pieces, and thus are legal tender in the issuing member state (in this case, France) only. Christian Edited by chrisild 12/10/2010 07:42 am Report this Post to the Staff
aqua New Member France 4 Posts	Posted 12/18/2010 05:27 am The 10â‚¬ reunion coins were mint at 75 000. 20/25â‚¬ on ebay. You can find old RÃ©union coins when she was name "Bourbon Island". Edited by aqua 12/18/2010 05:28 am Report this Post to the Staff
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