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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Libourne 33
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Libourne |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green and ochre letterpress note with a leafy ornamental border enclosing a central dark green banner bearing the denomination UN FRANC in large white letters. Above the banner, a heraldic vignette with a shield surmounted by a caduceus and foliage flanks the series inscription SIXIÈME SÉRIE in red; the issuer's name CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LIBOURNE arches across the top in bold capitals. The lower portion carries the reimbursement clause, two manuscript signatures above the roles Le Trésorier and Le Président, and a six-digit serial number in a cartouche, all set against a fine-text underprint repeating the issuer's name. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 fr. CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LIBOURNE IMP. WETTERWALD FRÈRES - BORDEAUX |
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French chambers of commerce were authorised to issue emergency small-denomination notes during and after the First World War to compensate for the acute shortage of coins — silver and bronze had been hoarded or melted, and the state couldn't keep pace with demand for fractional currency. Libourne's chamber was one of dozens across France operating under this mandate, with Wetterwald Frères in Bordeaux handling printing for several regional issuers in the southwest simultaneously.
The 1920 date places this note in the tail end of that emergency regime, by which point the French Treasury was actively working to retire chamber issues and restore centralised small-change circulation. Many of these late printings saw limited distribution before recall.