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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Bar-le-Duc 55
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bar-le-Duc |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue and green note with an elaborate guilloche border enclosing decorative corner cartouches bearing the denomination numeral '1'. A municipal coat of arms flanked by laurel branches occupies the upper centre. The denomination 'UN FRANC' is set in large bold type within a central oval guilloche underprint. Signature lines for the Treasurer and President appear below the denomination, with the serial number and printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | La présente coupure fait partie de l'émission du 1er septembre 1917 dont la contre-valeur est déposée au Trésor Public. Son remboursement aura lieu aux Caisses publiques du département de la Meuse à toute époque et au plus tard le 1er septembre 1922. |
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Bar-le-Duc sits in the Meuse, roughly thirty kilometers from Verdun. In 1917, the battle there had already consumed over a million casualties. French small change had vanished entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply lost in the chaos of the most industrialized slaughter yet attempted — and Chambers of Commerce across the occupied and near-front zones were authorized to fill the void with emergency fractional notes. This is one of those.
Berger-Levrault in Nancy was the obvious regional choice: a serious academic and military printer with the infrastructure to produce credible fiduciary paper when the banks could not. The watermark is the note's primary security element, modest but sufficient for the purpose.