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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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| Size | 100 × 71 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE DEPARTEMENT DE L'EURE CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'EVREUX Arrondissements D'EVREUX, DES ANDELYS, BERNAY ET LOUVIERS Délibération du 17 Novembre 1921 UN FRANC Le Président Le Trésorier BERGER LEVRAULT NANCY-PARIS-STRASBOURG |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'EVREUX Les bons émis par la Chambre de Commerce d'Evreux seront échangés à présentation contre des billets de la Banque de France dans toutes les caisses publiques. Leur émission est faite pour une durée de trois ans et ils devront être présentés au remboursement définitif avant le 17 novembre 1926. Ce remboursement est garanti par le dépôt au Trésor public de sa contre-valeur. |
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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.