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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Nîmes 30
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Nîmes |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 95 × 78 mm |
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| Reverse description | Reverse printed in the same ochre palette, with a dense guilloche frame enclosing a large central oval. The four corners each carry a denomination tablet marked 1 Fr within ornamental cartouches. The oval centre bears the issuer's title in an arched legend at the top, beneath which a multi-line legal text in capitals sets out the redemption obligation and expiry date. The printer's imprint appears at lower left and lower right. |
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| Protection description | Bee watermark present on JP#92-18; no watermark on JP#92-19 |
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| Comments |
The Chambres de Commerce emergency issues of the early 1920s tend to blur together, but the Nîmes series has a specific local character worth noting. Achiardi was a regional printer, not one of the large specialist security houses, which partly explains the relatively modest production quality seen across this series. The watermark — present but not elaborate — was often the only meaningful security feature on provincial nécessité issues of this period, most of which circulated heavily in local retail trade while coin shortages persisted well beyond the armistice.
JP#92-18/19 distinguishes two numbering variants within this type.