Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Bar-le-Duc 55
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bar-le-Duc |
|---|---|
| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 98 × 64 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the red guilloche border and corner cartouches of the obverse. A circular blue handstamp bearing the interlaced monogram CBC and the legend CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE BAR-LE-DUC is applied at the top centre. The central field carries the redemption notice in French across multiple lines, with the text underprinted by a repeated guilloche pattern inscribed CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BAR-LE-DUC. |
| Reverse lettering | Les billets, échangeables contre des billets de la Banque de France, devront être présentés au remboursement avant le 1er septembre 1922. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Bar-le-Duc's Chamber of Commerce issued this note as part of the vast wave of French provincial emergency currency that persisted well into the 1920s — long after the armistice. The town sits in the Meuse, a department that had been within German lines for much of the war, and the local commercial apparatus was slow to normalize. Berger-Levrault, the Nancy printing house with deep roots in official French government printing, produced notes for numerous Lorraine chambers during this period, making their regional output considerable.
The JP#19 reference covers both the 15 and 16 varieties, distinguished by minor typographic or serial differences that are easy to overlook without direct comparison.