1 Centime - Groupement de Commerçants - Poissy [78]

Poissy's merchant association issued zinc emergency coinage during the German occupation of France in World War II, when the Vichy government's metal requisitions and the broader collapse of small-change supply left local commerce functionally paralyzed. Groupements de commerçants across the occupied zone filled the gap independently, producing aluminum and zinc tokens redeemable only within their issuing locality — a patchwork monetary stopgap that the authorities tolerated rather than sanctioned.

The El Monedero reference 15.1 distinguishes this as the primary die variety for the Poissy issue.