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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. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is set entirely in letterpress text, presenting the statutory conditions governing the bon divisionnaire in multiple paragraphs of French legal text. The typography is plain and functional, covering regulations on circulation, redemption at the Banque de France, commission limits, and obligations of the Caisse municipale upon liquidation. A decorative scrollwork border element appears in the lower right corner, and the printer's imprint 'IMP. J. LECERF, ROUEN' is repeated at the foot of the note. |
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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.