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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 | 1920-1923 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 | 1920 | 1923 | UN FRANC | CE BILLET DONT LA CONTRE-VALEUR EST DÉPOSÉE AU TRÉSOR EST REMBOURSABLE JUSQU'AU 1er JANVIER 1923 | A LA TRÉSORERIE GLE A AURILLAC ET AUX CAISSES PUBLIQUES DU DÉPARTEMENT DU CANTAL | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'AURILLAC | RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE | Série O | Félix Tourdes Inv. | Imp. Delostal & Germa |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Chambre de Commerce d'Aurillac issued its own small-denomination scrip during the severe postwar coinage shortage that gripped France between 1920 and 1923 — a period when centimes and small francs vanished from circulation almost entirely, hoarded by a public still rattled by wartime economics. Hundreds of French chambres de commerce did the same, producing a vast and taxonomically bewildering family of emergency issues that philatelists and notaphilists have been sorting ever since.
What distinguishes this particular note is its thoroughly local production: Delostal & Germa, a printing firm based in Aurillac itself, handled the job, with design credited to Félix Tourdes. Few chamber issues were printed in-house at this scale — most chambers contracted with larger Parisian or Lyon-based printers.