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1 franc - Chambre de Commerce de Cahors [46]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Cahors |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet-blue on a pale ground and carries a central vignette of a heraldic device or town coat of arms. The full redemption clause is set in a rectangular text block at centre, within a simple ruled border, with "CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CAHORS" in a cartouche at the top and the numeral "1" in circular medallions at either side. The printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Protection description | Without watermark |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency issues of World War One were authorized by a series of French government decrees beginning in 1914, as the hoarding of metal coinage — driven by wartime anxiety — drained small change from everyday commerce almost overnight. Cahors, the prefecture of the Lot department, was among hundreds of provincial chambers that scrambled to fill the gap with locally printed paper fractions. Pierre Dumont's Limoges press supplied a number of these regional issues, which accounts for the typographic similarities collectors occasionally notice across unrelated issuing authorities.