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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Belfort 90
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Belfort |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 FRANC LA CONTRE-VALEUR DE CES BONS EST DÉPOSÉE AU TRÉSOR; LEUR REMBOURSEMENT A LIEU AUX CAISSES PUBLIQUES DANS LA CIRCONSCRIPTION DE LA CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BELFORT; ILS DEVRONT ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉS AU REMBOURSEMENT AVANT LE 5 NOVEMBRE 1923, SAUF DÉCISION PROROGEANT CE DÉLAI. Le Trésorier Le Président |
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| Protection description | Watermark incorporated into the paper stock, visible when held to light. |
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During the First World War, the French Treasury's inability to keep small-denomination coinage in circulation forced chambers of commerce across the country to issue their own emergency paper. Belfort's chamber — operating in the Territoire de Belfort, a department that had existed solely because its garrison refused to surrender in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71 — was among those authorized under the decrees of 1914–1916 to fill that gap. The political identity of the territory made its locally issued scrip a matter of some civic pride.
Printed by B. Arnaud in Villeurbanne, a working-class commune immediately east of Lyon, the note carries a watermark as its sole security measure — modest, but consistent with wartime austerity across the entire French emergency series. The JP#23 reference covers at least four distinct varieties within this denomination, differentiated by serial number series and minor typographic details.