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1 franc - Chambre de Commerce de Montauban [82]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Montauban |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress design on a pale guilloche underprint, with an ornate border of oval medallions at the corners and sides. The issuing authority CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE MONTAUBAN is inscribed across the top, beneath which the deliberation date and the large-format denomination UN FRANC appear in bold type. A central vignette presents the coat of arms of Montauban flanked by two handwritten signatures above the legend lines for the Treasurer and President, with the serial number printed in blue between them; the printer's imprint L. CASSAN AINÉ TOULOUSE and the expiry date 31 DÉCEMBRE 1925 appear at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Brown intaglio-style vignette after a composition by Louis Oury, occupying the right half of the note, depicting allegorical figures — a reclining female personification of the Tarn-et-Garonne river accompanied by putti — set against a landscape with a bridge. The denomination 1 fr. appears in oval cartouches at left and right within a border of agricultural and foliate ornaments, with a monogram cartouche at top centre. Inscriptions across the top commemorate the centenary of the creation of the department (1808–1908), and a four-line redemption notice runs along the lower margin. |
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The Montauban Chamber of Commerce began issuing emergency fractional notes during the First World War, when the withdrawal of metal coinage created a severe shortage of small change across provincial France. This 1921 date places the note at the tail end of that emergency regime — most chambers had already wound down or were in the process of retiring their issues by this point, which makes the later printings less common than the wartime runs.
Louis Oury designed several notes in this regional series, with printing handled by L. Cassan Ainé in Toulouse, a firm that served a number of southern French chambers during this period. JP#83.19 is a distinct catalog entry within the Montauban sequence, suggesting a separate printing or minor typographic variant from earlier 1 franc issues.