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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce d'Abbeville 80
| Issuer | Ville d'Abbeville et Chambre de Commerce de l'Arrondissement d'Abbeville |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie Chaix, Paris, France (1845-1965) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse is composed of a bold outer border of fine parallel-rule guilloche strips enclosing four cornerpiece numerals '1' in decorative cartouches. A central rocaille cartouche with scrolled acanthus surrounds a block of regulatory text in three numbered articles governing the redemption conditions of the fractional notes. The issuing authority's name is divided between the top and bottom margins, with 'VILLE D'ABBEVILLE' at the head and 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE L'ARRONDISSEMENT D'ABBEVILLE' at the foot. |
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| Protection description | Leaf motif |
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Abbeville's Chamber of Commerce began issuing emergency fractional notes during the First World War, when the disappearance of coinage from circulation forced hundreds of French municipalities and commercial bodies to produce their own. The 1 Franc piece in this series appeared in 1920, well into the postwar period — by which point the Banque de France had largely restored normal currency supply, making these late chamber issues transitional objects, issued more out of administrative inertia than genuine necessity.
Imprimerie Chaix, the Paris printer responsible for this note, was also one of France's leading producers of railway timetables and theatrical posters — a commercial printer of considerable technical standing, not a specialist security firm.