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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Gray et Vesoul 70
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Gray et Vesoul |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#62-13/14 |
| Obverse description | Blue and ochre letterpress note with an ornate guilloche border incorporating floral and geometric corner motifs. The issuer's name appears at top within a scrolled cartouche, below which the authorizing deliberation date is inscribed; the large-denomination numeral legend 'UN FRANC' is printed in bold black across the centre over a text-based underprint repeating the chamber's name. At the lower centre a circular red official seal of the Chambre de Commerce de Gray et Vesoul is flanked by two laurel sprays, with two manuscript signatures above for the Treasurer and the President, and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the paper, consisting of a repeated text pattern with the chamber's name. |
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The Chambre de Commerce de Gray et Vesoul served two towns in Haute-Saône — Gray on the Saône river and Vesoul, the departmental capital — neither large enough to warrant its own separate chamber. Their joint emergency issues filled the coin shortage that gripped provincial France from 1914 onward and persisted well past the Armistice. By 1919 the French Treasury still hadn't resolved the small-denomination supply problem, forcing chambers of commerce across the country to extend or reissue their emergency paper years longer than originally intended.
Imprimerie B. Arnaud was among the most prolific printers of French nécessité issues, supplying dozens of chambers during this period from their Lyon operation.