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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce d'Aubenas [07]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Aubenas |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse presents a central allegorical vignette of a draped female figure, rendered in an Art Nouveau style, leaning over an oval cartouche inscribed UN FRANC. She is flanked by decorative columns entwined with grapevine foliage, set against an arched guilloche underprint bearing the repeated text CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'AUBENAS. The issuer's title appears in a banner at the top, with the deliberation date DÉLIBÉRATION DU 19 DÉCEMBRE 1921, series number at lower left, and the Ardeche departmental arms within an ornamental shield at the base. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency franc notes of the early 1920s emerged because the French state simply failed to supply enough small-denomination coinage after the First World War. Aubenas, a modest market town in the Ardèche, was among dozens of local chambers that stepped in to fill the gap — issuing their own fiduciary paper redeemable within their commercial catchment area. B. Arnaud of Villeurbanne handled a considerable volume of this provincial emergency work out of Lyon, and the execution here is competent without being ambitious.
Léo Leyvastre's involvement is the one detail worth pausing on — he contributed designs to several of these regional issues, bringing a degree of graphic consistency to what might otherwise have been purely utilitarian work.