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| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Nantes |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE NANTES BON DE UN FRANC Le Chef de la Comptabilité Le Président IMP. MODERNE NANTES OCULI OMNIUM IN TE SPERANT DOMINE NANTES |
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| Reverse lettering | Les Bons émis par la Chambre de Commerce de Nantes seront échangés, à présentation, par dix ou multiples de dix, contre des billets de la Banque de France. Leur remboursement est garanti par un dépôt d'égale valeur, à la Banque de France, au nom de la Chambre de Commerce de Nantes. |
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French Chambers of Commerce were authorized to issue small-denomination emergency notes in August 1914, as the mobilization for war drained coins from circulation almost overnight. The Nantes chamber was among the earliest to act, and the Imprimerie Moderne — a local Nantes firm operating under Beuchet & Vanden Brugge — handled production entirely in-house, which kept the notes genuinely regional in character. The JP#88 series ran across multiple dated issues, accounting for the breadth of that reference range.