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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce d'Auxerre [89]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Auxerre |
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| Year | 1920-1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Rectangular note printed in blue and red on a pink guilloche underprint, framed by a dense ornamental border enclosing four corner medallions bearing local heraldic vignettes. The central field carries a repetitive letterpress underprint of 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE AUXERRE' in red, over which the bold denomination 'UN FRANC' is printed in red; year cartouches in black appear at upper left and right, with spaces for the Treasurer's and President's manuscript signatures flanking the central text. The series designation and serial number are printed in blue at lower centre, with the printer's imprint 'IMP. B. ARNAUD - LYON - PARIS' at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and red on a pink underprint, enclosed by a geometric guilloche border of repeating star-rosette motifs with four corner circles each bearing the denomination '1Fr'. The central field carries a repetitive letterpress underprint of 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE AUXERRE' in red, centred by a circular blue stamp reading 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE' surrounding the numeral '1F', flanked by two symmetrical palm-branch vignettes. Vertical black overprint cartouches reading 'ÉMISSION 1920' appear on both lateral margins, and a scroll banner at lower centre carries the redemption notice in black letterpress. |
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The Auxerre Chamber of Commerce entered the emergency small-change market like dozens of similar bodies across France after the wartime hoarding of coins left daily commerce effectively paralyzed. These chamber-issued fractional notes — bons de nécessité — were a stopgap sanctioned by the French state from 1914 onward, and Auxerre's series ran well into the early 1920s before metallic coinage finally returned to circulation in adequate quantities.
Printing was handled by B. Arnaud of Villeurbanne, a firm with a long regional presence in the Lyon area. The JP# references span multiple date variants across the 1920–1921 window, with small typographic differences accounting for the separate catalog numbers.