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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 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE 1922 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'AVIGNON ET DE VAUCLUSE A BEC et GRIFFES AVIGNON UN FRANC CARPENTRAS ORANGE APTA FELICIBUS TRIUMPHIS Le Président Le Trésorier BERGER LEVRAULT NANCY-PARIS STRASBOURG |
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| Reverse lettering | TROISIÈME ÉMISSION DE REMPLACEMENT 1922 Les bons de 1 franc et de 50 centimes de la Chambre de Commerce d'Avignon et de Vaucluse sont émis sous sa responsabilité et sa garantie. Ils devront être présentés au remboursement avant le 31 décembre 1925 (Délibération de la Chambre de Commerce d'Avignon et de Vaucluse du 26 octobre 1921). |
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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.