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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 | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#19- 3/4/5/6 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the same dark green guilloche border with corner vignettes bearing the numeral '1', enclosing a pale underprint of the repeated issuer legend. A circular red ink stamp of the Chambre de Commerce de Bar-le-Duc, bearing the interlaced monogram CBC, is applied at the upper centre. The field carries a multi-line redemption notice in French instructing holders to present the note for reimbursement before 4 November 1920. |
| Reverse lettering | Les billets, échangeables contre des billets de la Banque de France, devront être présentés au remboursement avant le 4 novembre 1920. |
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Bar-le-Duc sits in the Meuse department, which bore the full weight of the Western Front. By 1920, French small change remained so scarce — hoarded, melted, or simply destroyed during four years of war — that chambers of commerce across France had been issuing emergency fractional notes since 1914, and many were still in circulation well into the early 1920s. This note is part of that prolonged necessity, not a wartime stopgap but a postwar admission that the crisis had not resolved cleanly.
Berger-Levrault in Nancy was a natural choice for Meuse-region issuers — a major printing house with deep administrative and military publishing roots, accustomed to producing documents under pressure.