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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Bergerac 24
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bergerac |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BERGERAC 60046 C UN FRANC Le Président Le Trésorier 5 OCTOBRE 1914 |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress reverse dominated by a six-line redemption text in French set across the upper two-thirds of the note, flanked by circular numeral 1 medallions with crosshatched shading at the upper corners. The lower portion carries the crowned municipal arms of Bergerac within a circular frame, flanked symmetrically by oak and laurel branches, with quarter-circle ornamental fillets at the lower corners. The printer's imprint appears in small type at the lower right margin. |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency issues of 1914 flooded France almost overnight when the mobilization decree of August 1914 triggered a run on coin that stripped small denomination currency from circulation within days. Bergerac's chamber was among scores of provincial commercial bodies authorized — somewhat informally at first — to fill the gap with locally printed bons de nécessité. Pierre Dumont in Limoges supplied several of these regional chambers, which accounts for the visual and typographic family resemblance across a number of Dordogne and Haute-Vienne issues from this period.
The JP reference spans six catalogue numbers, reflecting date or control variants rather than distinct design changes.