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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce d'Avignon et de Vaucluse 84
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Avignon et de Vaucluse |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress reverse with the same repeating 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'AVIGNON' text underprint throughout the field. At the top centre, a circular vignette encloses an anchor and fish motif surrounded by the legend 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'AVIGNON'. The words 'TROISIÈME ÉMISSION DE REMPLACEMENT 1922' are printed in large red letters across the upper portion of the note. The central text block, printed in blue, sets out the legal terms of issue and the redemption deadline of 31 December 1925, citing the deliberation of the Chambre de Commerce of 26 October 1921. The border consists of a guilloche rosette pattern with small corner vignettes. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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French Chambers of Commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes following the coin shortage that began in 1914, and many were still circulating well into the 1920s — a decade after the crisis that prompted them. The Avignon chamber's franc notes were among the later issues in this nationwide series, printed by Berger-Levrault in Nancy, a firm better known for military and administrative printing than commercial banknote work.
The JP# reference covers four catalog variants across this denomination, likely differing by date or serial block. Watermarking was a concession to security on what were essentially municipal scrip notes.