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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 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | 1920 | 1920 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'AUXERRE comprenant les arrondissements D'AUXERRE, JOIGNY, TONNERRE, AVALLON Délibération du 15 Avril 1920 UN FRANC Le Trésorier ÉCHANGEABLE CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE FRANCE Le Président SÉRIE IMP. B. ARNAUD - LYON - PARIS |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.