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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce d'Evreux 27
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Evreux |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#57-23/24 |
| Obverse description | Green letterpress note with an elaborate foliate and fruited border incorporating the municipal coats of arms of Andelys (left) and Bernay (right) in cartouches, and a crowned civic shield at top centre. The text field carries a repeated guilloche underprint reading CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'EVREUX, over which the large red numeral 1 is overprinted in the centre. At the foot, a vignette of the Louviers coat of arms is set within a ribbon scroll. Two manuscript facsimile signatures appear below the denomination line, attributed to Le Président and Le Trésorier respectively. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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French chambers of commerce took over small-denomination currency issuance during and after the First World War because the state simply could not supply enough coinage — metal was either hoarded or consumed by the war effort. The Évreux chamber's notes persisted well into the 1920s as the coin shortage dragged on longer than anyone anticipated. Berger-Levrault, better known as a major Alsatian publishing and printing house with a long government contract history, produced a clean but unassuming issue for a provincial body that had no particular reason to spend heavily on its emergency scrip.