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1 Franc - Chambre de commerce de Granville [50]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Granville |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 F CE BILLET DEVRA ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉ AU REMBOURSEMENT À LA BANQUE DE FRANCE DE GRANVILLE AVANT LE 19 JUILLET 1920 (Translation: This note must be presented for redemption at the Bank of France in Granville before 19 July 1920) |
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| Protection type | Underprint |
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Granville's chamber of commerce began issuing emergency fractional notes in 1915 as the wartime coin shortage stripped small denominations from everyday commerce across France. This was a nationwide crisis answered locally — hundreds of French chambers issued their own paper in these years, but Granville's series was printed entirely in-house by Goachet, a local press, rather than contracted to one of the larger provincial printers handling bulk emergency production elsewhere.
The JP#60- reference covers three distinct date variants within this type, all sharing the same plate.