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1 Franc
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Évreux |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| In circulation to | 1 November 1922 |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE · EVREUX · THEVENON |
| Reverse description | The central field features a raised inner circle enclosing the large numeral '1' rendered with horizontal line shading, with the denomination FRANC and date 1922 inscribed below in the lower portion of the inner circle; two raised pellets flank the inner circle at the mid-field level. The annular border between the inner circle and the outer rim bears the legend CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE · EVREUX · in bold raised letters, the outer rim itself decorated with an alternating dot-and-oval pellet pattern matching the obverse. |
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The Chambre de Commerce d'Évreux issued this token during the severe small-change shortage that gripped France in the early 1920s, when wartime metal requisitions and postwar monetary disruption left the country chronically short of low-denomination coinage. Chambers of commerce across France were authorized to fill the gap with locally issued brass and aluminum necessity pieces, effectively deputizing regional trade bodies as temporary minting authorities. Évreux, the prefecture of Eure in Normandy, was among dozens of provincial chambers to take up this role.
Most of these emergency issues were redeemed and melted once the Banque de France restabilized small coinage supply by the mid-1920s, which accounts for the attrition in surviving examples.