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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes 06
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#91-05 |
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| Obverse lettering | 1917 1919 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE NICE ET DES ALPES-MARITIMES Série 31 05149 UN 1 FRANC Ces billets garantis par un dépôt au Trésor d'égale somme sont toujours échangeables contre des billets de la Banque de France aux succursales de cette banque, dans le département des Alpes-Maritimes. Ils devront sous peine de prescription y être présentés au remboursement avant le 31 décembre 1919, sauf décision prorogeant ce délai. ROBAUDY CANNES |
| Reverse description | The reverse, executed in the same two-colour Art Nouveau idiom, is bordered by a rich decorative frame of grapevines and foliage in ochre-gold and black. Two stylised trees flank the central panel, each surmounted by a heraldic shield — the left bearing the caduceus of commerce, the right an anchor — while the large denomination "UN 1 FRANC" occupies the centre above the facsimile signatures of the President and Treasurer. A cartouche at the foot records the deliberation of 19 April 1917 and the ministerial decision of 25 April 1917, with the designer's name "Marius SIMON" inscribed at the lower left. |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes in 1914 after the outbreak of war caused an almost immediate hoarding crisis — silver and bronze coins vanished from circulation within weeks. The Nice chamber's 1917 issues belong to that broader wave of locally-administered paper that kept retail commerce functioning across provincial France for the better part of a decade. Robaudy in Cannes was a natural choice for regional printing work; the firm handled considerable commercial and decorative printing along the Côte d'Azur throughout the period.
Marius Simon's design credit is worth noting — he was a locally active artist, and the engagement of a named designer rather than an anonymous commercial layout reflects the civic pride many chambers invested in these otherwise functional pieces.