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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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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE MARSEILLE UN FRANC Le Trésorier Les Membres Délégués Série B-R 15,932 |
| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on pink guilloche underprint. The central oval panel carries an extract from the Chamber's deliberations of 5 June 1917, framed by two caduceus staffs with entwined serpents and wings at either side. The Marseille city arms appear in a red octagonal vignette at the base of the oval, with denomination roundels "1 Fr." in red at lower left and right corners. |
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Marseille's Chamber of Commerce began issuing its own small-denomination emergency notes in 1914 as the wartime coin shortage stripped France of its circulating bronze and silver. By 1917, when this note was produced, the Moullot printing house — a long-established Marseille commercial firm — was turning out successive series for the Chamber as demand continued to outpace redemption. H. Rouit's design credit appears consistently across the Marseille Chamber issues of this period.
JP#79.64 places this within a densely catalogued series; collectors should note that Moullot-printed Marseille nécessité notes vary considerably in rarity across dates and series letters, and this particular reference number does not represent one of the scarcer variants.