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1 franc - Chambre de Commerce de Châlon-sur-Saône, Autun et Louhans [71]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Chalon-sur-Saône, Autun et Louhans |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 F 1 FRANC CES BONS ÉCHANGEABLES CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE FRANCE DEVRONT ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉS AU REMBOURSEMENT, AVANT LE 8 DÉCEMBRE 1923, SAUF DÉCISION PROROGEANT CE DÉLAI. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Chambre de Commerce de Chalon-sur-Saône, Autun et Louhans was one of dozens of provincial chambers that filled the small-denomination void left when wartime hoarding stripped France of its centime and low-franc coinage after 1914. These emergency issues were never intended to outlast the shortage, yet many chambers — this one included — were still printing into the early 1920s, well past the armistice, because coin never fully returned to provincial circulation.
Arnaud of Lyon was a workhorse printer for this type of regional papier-monnaie and supplied many of the Burgundy-area chambers during this period. The watermark is the principal security measure — modest by banking standards, but sufficient for notes whose forgery offered little profit.