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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Granville 50
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Granville |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie Charles Valin, Caen, France |
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| Obverse lettering | 1915 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE GRANVILLE 1920 Délibération du 3 octobre 1916 UN FRANC Le Trésorier Le Président IMP. CH. VALIN. CAEN |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper. |
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Granville's Chamber of Commerce began issuing emergency fractional notes in 1915 when the wartime coin shortage left small-denomination transactions nearly impossible across provincial France. The Valin press in Caen handled several Norman chamber issues during this period, and the Granville series is among the more modestly distributed — the town's population was small enough that surviving examples with genuine circulation wear are actually less common than uncirculated remainders from unissued stocks.
The watermark security was a minimum concession to forgery prevention, typical of the underfunded urgency behind France's entire bons de nécessité program.