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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce d'Arras [62]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Arras |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unadorned save for a centred block of typeset text citing the anti-counterfeiting provisions of the French Penal Code. The plain cream paper carries faint manuscript traces visible through the stock, with no vignette, underprint, or ornamental border. |
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| Protection description | Without watermark |
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The Chambre de Commerce d'Arras issued these fractional notes in 1914 as emergency currency after the outbreak of war disrupted the normal supply of small coinage almost overnight. Arras sat directly in the path of the German advance and would be under artillery bombardment by October of that year, which means many notes from this first issue simply did not survive the war in any condition.
JP#13-01 places this among the earliest French chamber of commerce emissions of the conflict — a category that eventually numbered in the hundreds as local authorities across France scrambled to fill the void left by hoarded metal.