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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Fécamp 76
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Fécamp |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Printer | Les papeteries de Normandie (A. Mouville - Ozanne & Cie), Caen, France |
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| Obverse description | Green and ochre letterpress note with a central cartouche bearing the issuer's title and the denomination UN FRANC on a teal panel, flanked by two panoramic vignettes: a busy harbour scene with a steamship at left and a townscape with a Gothic church spire at right. Seagulls in flight animate the teal upper border, while rope-guilloche corner medallions each carry the numeral 1. Facsimile signatures of the President and Treasurer appear below the cartouche, with the serial number printed in black at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | EMISSION 1920 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE de FECAMP UN FRANC Le Président Le Trésorier N°123,963 L. P.N. CAEN. A. MOUVILLE & Cie R. LEGROS. inv |
| Reverse description | Ochre and green reverse with a central text panel headed PREMIÈRE EMISSION, enclosed within a scrolled cartouche suspended from a laurel-and-berry festoon tied at each end to a cornucopia. A roundel at top centre carries a Norman heraldic seal with two leopards, and the municipal coat of arms of Fécamp appears at the bottom of the panel. To the left, an etched vignette of the vestiges of the 10th-century Ducal Castle; to the right, the apse and fortified enclosure of the 11th-century Abbey. Rope-guilloche corner medallions repeat the numeral 1. |
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