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1 Franc
| Issuer | Chambres de Commerce de l'Aveyron |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Reverse lettering | LA CONTREVALEUR DE CE BILLET EST DÉPOSÉE AU TRÉSOR. SON REMBOURSEMENT AURA LIEU AUX CAISSES PUBLIQUES DU DÉPARTEMENT DANS UN DÉLAI NE DÉPASSANT PAS LE 31 DÉCEMBRE 1922 L. CASSAN AÎNÉ TOULOUSE |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Chambres de Commerce de l'Aveyron issued emergency small-denomination notes during the First World War to address the acute coin shortage that had swept through provincial France from 1914 onward. Hoarding of metal coinage — silver and bronze alike — had left local commerce functionally paralyzed, and the central authorities were slow to respond. Regional chambers of commerce across the country stepped into the gap, issuing their own papier-monnaie de nécessité under emergency authorizations.
L. Cassan Ainé was a well-established Toulouse printing firm with a long record of commercial and official work in the Midi-Pyrénées region. The Boyer design with watermarked paper was a deliberate step above the most rudimentary emergency issues of the period.