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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce d'Aurillac [15]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Aurillac et du Cantal |
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| Year | 1917-1923 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Without watermark |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency issues of World War One filled a genuine gap — coin hoarding after 1914 stripped small denominations from everyday commerce, and the French government was too absorbed with wartime finance to address it. Local chambers stepped in under a 1916 authorization, and Aurillac was among the more self-sufficient, using the regional printer Delostal & Germa rather than the Paris firms that supplied most provincial issuers.
Tourdes designed the series with a watermarked paper stock, unusual attentiveness for a local emergency issue. The authorization ran through 1923, well past the Armistice, reflecting how slowly fractional coinage returned to normal circulation after the war.