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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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| In circulation to | 4 November 1920 |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on a yellow-ochre underprint, the note is framed by an ornate guilloche border with rosette medallions at the corners, each bearing the monogram 'B'. At the upper centre, the civic coat of arms of Bar-le-Duc is displayed within a laurel wreath vignette. The denomination 'UN FRANC' is set in large bold letterpress type at centre, flanked by the signature lines for the Treasurer and the President, with the printer's imprint 'NANCY-PARIS BERGER-LEVRAULT' at the lower margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Bar-le-Duc sits in the Meuse, and the town was barely thirty kilometers from the Verdun front. By 1920, the Chambre de Commerce was still issuing emergency fractional notes because the wartime destruction of the regional economy had never fully resolved — the French Treasury remained unable to supply adequate small-denomination coinage years after the Armistice. Berger-Levrault, the Nancy printing house with a long history of official and military printing, produced the series.
JP#19-8 places this within a well-documented local emergency emission type, though survivorship varies considerably across the Bar-le-Duc issues.