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1 Franc
| Issuer | Banque Rouennaise |
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| Year | 1871 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE ROUENNAISE DE BONS DIVISIONNAIRES UN FRANC CAISSE DE REMBOURSEMENT Rue Jeanne d'Arc, 4 Le Directeur Caissier Un Administrateur Vu pour légalisation ART. 5. – Tout porteur de Bons de circulation pourra en exiger le remboursement à vue en Billets de Banque, lorsqu'il en présentera pour au moins cent francs. |
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| Reverse lettering | mettra en circulation des Bons de 1, 2, 5 et 10 francs, en Banque de France et de numéraire. Jamais la somme de era celle des Billets de la Banque de France et du numéraire. ne n'échangera pas pour une somme moindre de 25 francs et mission qui ne pourra être supérieure à 1 p. 0/0. porteur de Bons pourra exiger le remboursement, à vue, en e de France, lorsqu'il en présentera pour au moins cent francs. La contrevaleur des Bons divisionnaires non présentés à l'échéance, ois mois qui suivront le jour de l'ouverture de la liquidation, sera la Caisse municipale. esse municipale sera tenue au remboursement de ces Bons pendant une année expirée, les porteurs seront déchus de tous leurs droits. |
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The Banque Rouennaise was one of dozens of provincial French commercial banks that issued emergency fractional notes during and immediately after the Franco-Prussian War, when coin virtually vanished from circulation. The Prussian siege of Paris and the economic dislocation that followed drove hoarding hard — even small silver and copper disappeared — forcing regional institutions to paper over the gap with locally printed scrip of questionable legal standing.
Lecerf was a Rouen jobbing printer, not a security press. Notes from this issue are prone to amateur-level printing inconsistencies, and the paper stock was never intended to survive extended handling.