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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Dieppe 76
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Dieppe |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE DIEPPE CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE DIEPPE 1 UN FRANC Émission approuvée par l'Administration Supérieure. Le Secrétaire Trésorier Émission faite sous la garantie de la Chambre de Commerce. Le Président N°. 054,409 IMP. RICHARD, PARIS |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, largely unprinted, carrying three paragraphs of italic text in French setting out the conditions of circulation and redemption through the Banque de France. A circular dry embossed stamp is visible at upper right, and the serial number is repeated in mirror-image print at the foot of the note. |
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French chambers of commerce were granted emergency authority to issue low-denomination paper money in August 1914, when the mobilization crisis caused a near-total disappearance of small coinage from circulation. Dieppe's chamber was among the first wave to act, and this 1915 franc note was printed by Imprimerie Richard in Paris — a commercial house responsible for a significant share of the provincial emergency issues that flooded France during the early war years.
The sole security measure is a dry stamp, which offered almost no protection against forgery. Passable counterfeits were a known problem across the broader nécessité note series, though Dieppe's issues circulated in a geographically contained area that limited exposure. The JP#52 reference covers three catalogue variants for this denomination, distinguished by minor typographic differences.