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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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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Ochre-toned note with an elaborate Art Nouveau guilloche border incorporating foliate scrollwork, grape clusters, and acanthus ornaments. A central oval vignette presents a female allegorical bust in three-quarter profile, flanked by ribbon cartouches inscribed with the arrondissements of Nîmes and surrounding districts. The denomination UN FRANC appears in large letterpress type across the lower centre, with series number to the left, sequential number to the right, and the validity dates 1917–1922 along the bottom margin above the printer's imprint. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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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.