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The New France currency was distinguished by the extensive use of paper money. However, early issues did not maintain their value. In 1717, the premium for coins was abolished, the card money was redeemed at half its face value and the New France livre was set equal to the French livre. Further paper money was issued.
Livre Egyptian livre – Egypt; French colonial livre – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, Mauritius and Réunion; French livre – France; Guadeloupe livre – Guadeloupe; Jersey livre – Jersey; Lebanese livre – Lebanon; French livre parisis – France; French livre tournois – France; Haitian livre – Haiti; New France ...
The livre was the currency of various French colonies until the early 19th century. It was subdivided into 20 sous , each of 12 deniers . It was mostly issued in paper money form and was generally linked to the French livre at the rate of 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 colonial livres = 1 French livre.
5-sol French coin and silver coins – New France; Spanish-American coins- unofficial; Playing cards – 1685-1760s, sometimes officially New France; 15 and a 30-deniers coin known as the mousquetaire – early 17th century New France; Gold Louis – 1720 New France; Sol and Double Sol 1738–1764; English coins early 19th century
A 1714 playing card had the same currency value in the colony of New France as minted currency. Card money was in use in New France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Official money cards were embossed with a fleur-de-lis and the signatures of the intendant, governor, and treasurer. Private cards would also use the fleur-de-lis and ...
The currency caught on, and values equal to 100 livres are recorded. Eventually, an estimated two million livres in card money is thought to have circulated. [2] By the end of the decade New France faced counterfeiting problems with this currency, although counterfeiters could be caned, branded, banished, flogged, or even hanged.
By September 1790, the assignat had become a true circulating paper currency, and 800 million livres worth of non-interest bearing notes were added to the initial issue, in denominations of 50, 60 70, 80, 90, 100, 500, and 2000 livres with legal-tender status.
The franc (/ f r æ ŋ k /; French: franc français, [fʁɑ̃ fʁɑ̃sɛ]; sign: F or Fr), [n 2] also commonly distinguished as the French franc (FF), was a currency of France.Between 1360 and 1641, it was the name of coins worth 1 livre tournois and it remained in common parlance as a term for this amount of money.