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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Limoges 87
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Limoges |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Obverse description | Green and red letterpress note with an elaborate guilloche border in red surrounding a green underprint. The upper panel bears the issuer's title within a cartouche, with the denomination UN FRANC in large red letters across the centre. Two black intaglio vignettes flank the centre field: at left, a circular public building, and at right, the Hôtel de Ville of Limoges, with a monument column between them. Three manuscript signatures appear across the centre, with their respective titles — Le Président, Par délégation Vice-Président, and Le Trésorier — printed above. The interlinked monogram CCL appears within a decorative cartouche at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | CE BILLET, GARANTI PAR DÉPÔT D'ÉGALE SOMME AU TRÉSOR PUBLIC, DEVRA ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉ AU REMBOURSEMENT AVANT LE 1er Janvier 1923 |
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French Chambers of Commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination paper money during the coin shortages of World War I, and many continued doing so well into the 1920s as metal coinage remained scarce or hoarded. The Limoges chamber's franc notes of this period were a purely local instrument — accepted by regional merchants but carrying no obligation beyond the issuing body itself. Printed by Pierre Dumont in Limoges, the note never circulated far from its home département.
JP#73-24 falls late in the series, by which point the French Treasury was actively pushing chambers to retire their emergency issues.