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0 05 Mess d'Avord 18
| Issuer | Mess d'Avord |
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| Year | 1914-1921 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green paper voucher with letterpress text. The issuer name MESS D'AVORD is printed at upper centre, separated by a short rule from the bold denomination BON : 0.05 below. A vertical row of perforations runs along the left side, and a punched hole appears at upper right corner. |
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| Obverse lettering | MESS D'AVORD BON : 0,05 |
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Avord, in the Cher département, housed one of France's most significant military aviation training bases — established before the First World War and expanded rapidly after 1914. Mess tokens and small-denomination canteen notes of this type were internal scrip, usable only within the mess itself, issued to manage accounts when small coin was scarce or administratively inconvenient. The 0,05 denomination points squarely at the wartime coin shortage that plagued French military establishments from 1915 onward.
The JP (Jérôme Prieur) reference places this within the broader corpus of French military and civilian emergency issues catalogued from that period. Surviving examples from Avord are not common.