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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Caen et de Honfleur 14
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Caen et de Honfleur |
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| Year | 1914-1925 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE CAEN ET DE HONFLEUR Le Président de la Chambre de Commerce de Caen Le Président de la Chambre de Commerce de Honfleur 1 UN FRANC Série 0.02 N° 396,454 Imp. Ch. Valin Caen |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a central cartouche in brown letterpress, formed by scrollwork and foliate ornaments, enclosing the redemption text in French. A circular chamber stamp is applied at the top of the cartouche, and the denomination "1 Fc" appears in large type at both left and right flanks. Issue year "1915" and expiry year "1920" are set in oval frames at the base of the cartouche. |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency issues of 1914–1918 filled a vacuum created almost overnight when hoarding stripped France of its small metal coinage within weeks of mobilization. The Caen chamber's notes circulated across Calvados and, by arrangement, were accepted in Honfleur — an unusual dual-jurisdiction guarantee that required explicit endorsement from both bodies and made these notes legally distinct from single-city issues.
Charles Valin was Caen's dominant commercial printer, not a specialist security firm, which shows in the relatively modest anti-counterfeiting measures compared to notes produced by Paris houses.