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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Marseille 13
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Marseille |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE MARSEILLE EXTRAIT des Délibérations de la Chambre de Commerce de Marseille en date du 5 Juin 1917. « La Chambre décide d'effectuer une nouvelle émission de 2.000.000 de Coupures de Un Franc. » Ces Coupures seront délivrées sur la remise d'une somme équivalente de billets de la Banque de France. Elles seront remboursables, à présentation, en billets de la Banque de France, à tout porteur d'une somme de Cinquante Francs, ou bons d'une somme inférieure complétée par des billets de la Banque de France ou des espèces. H. ROUIT INV.T & DEL. IMP. MOULLOT MARSEILLE |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Marseille's Chamber of Commerce began issuing its own emergency fractional notes in 1914 when wartime hoarding stripped France of small coinage almost overnight. By 1917, the Moullot & fils aîné firm — a well-established Marseille commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house — had produced multiple series for the chamber, this being among the later runs. The watermark was a concession to security, but these notes circulated in a port city with a transient population, and counterfeiting of chamber notes nationally was a known problem by mid-war.
Rouit's design credit is unusual — named designers on French emergency issues of this period are relatively uncommon, most chambers having used anonymous house art.