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1 Franc Bon Régional des départements de l'Aisne [02], des Ardennes [08] and de la Marne [51]
| Issuer | Comité d'Émission des Bons Régionaux des Départements de l'Aisne, des Ardennes et de la Marne |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SÉRIE 6 -- 18134 BON RÉGIONAL Des Départements de l'Aisne, des Ardennes & de la Marne (Parties de ces Départements occupés : 254 Communes) UN FRANC Remboursable dans les 2 ans de la signature de la Paix à la Caisse du Siège de l'Émission, à Laon. Laon, le 16 Juin 1916. LES MEMBRES DU COMITÉ DE CONTRÔLE : Ce Bon, pour être valable, doit être revêtu du Cachet du Comité de Contrôle. |
| Reverse description | Plain unadorned reverse in black letterpress, divided into three vertical columns listing the communes covered by the bon régional: the left column is headed «Aisne» and enumerates 24 communes, the centre column headed «Ardennes» lists 16 communes, and the right column headed «Marne» lists 6 communes, collectively accounting for the 254 occupied localities cited on the obverse. The emission details — «2ème ÉMISSION — 9.950.000 Francs» — are printed across the upper portion, with the denomination numeral «1» repeated at the upper corners. |
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Three of the most heavily occupied and devastated French departments of the First World War — Aisne, Ardennes, and Marne — pooled their emergency issuing authority to produce this regional bon de nécessité in 1916, at a point when the French banking system had effectively withdrawn from the occupied zone and small-denomination coin had vanished entirely from circulation. The tri-departmental arrangement was unusual; most French emergency issues of this period were issued by a single municipality or chamber of commerce, not by a joint committee spanning departments still partly under German military administration.
Redeemability was a serious question when these bons were printed — Ardennes in particular remained under occupation until the armistice, leaving large quantities unredeemed and the issuing committee's obligations in legal limbo well into 1919.