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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de la Corrèze 1915
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de la Corrèze |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Light green guilloche underprint covers the note field, overlaid with a crosshatch latticework pattern. The issuer's title, CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LA CORREZE, appears in white lettering on a dark rectangular cartouche at the top, flanked by oak and laurel branch vignettes at either side. The denomination UN FRANC is printed in large bold letterpress text at centre, with numeral 1 medallions at left and right, spaces for the President's and Treasurer's manuscript signatures below, and the issue date 25 MARS 1915 in a cartouche at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in dark blue on cream paper. The upper portion carries a dense block of redemption text in serif letterpress, flanked at upper left and right by circular numeral 1 medallions with engine-turned guilloche infill. The lower portion is occupied by a central circular vignette of the civic arms of Tulle, a turreted shield encircled by a wreath of oak and laurel branches, with the printer's imprint IMP. P. DUMONT, LIMOGES in the lower right margin. A decorative ruled border with ornamental corner pieces frames the entire reverse. |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes in August 1914, when the mobilization for the First World War triggered an immediate hoarding crisis that stripped coins almost entirely from daily commerce. The Corrèze chamber moved quickly; this 1915 franc note from Tulle filled a gap the Banque de France had neither the capacity nor the mandate to address at the retail level.
Pierre Dumont's Limoges press handled a number of regional nécessité issues during this period. The watermarked paper was a meaningful security measure for what was, functionally, a local scrip redeemable only within the département.