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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Lons-le-Saunier 39
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Lons-le-Saunier |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LONS-LE-SAUNIER UN FRANC Le Président Le Trésorier Série 15 Imp. Générale Grenoble. |
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| Reverse lettering | UN FRANC Ce billet garanti par un dépôt d'égale somme au Trésor est toujours remboursable aux Caisses Publiques et aux guichets de la Banque de France dans la circonscription de la Chambre. Il devra sous peine de prescription être présenté au remboursement avant le 31 DÉCEMBRE 1925 sauf décision prorogeant ce délai. LONS-LE-SAUNIER POLIGNY SAINT-CLAUDE DOLE |
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Lons-le-Saunier is the prefecture of the Jura department, and like hundreds of French Chambers of Commerce after World War One, it continued issuing small-denomination emergency paper well into the 1920s — long after the immediate postwar coin shortage that originally justified the practice. By 1925 the French Treasury had largely restored metallic circulation, making this franc note something of a bureaucratic holdover rather than a genuine necessity. The Grands établissements de l'imprimerie générale in Grenoble handled a substantial share of provincial Chamber issues across southeastern France during this period, and their output is generally consistent in production quality.