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1 Franc - Chambre de commerce de Perpignan
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Perpignan |
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| Year | 1919-1922 |
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| Size | 98 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on an ochre-orange ground, the obverse carries a rectangular cartouche at the top bearing the issuer's title and the authorizing deliberation date. A large laurel wreath frames the central field, within which the denomination UN FRANC is set in bold letterpress type to the right. Below, two manuscript signatures appear under the printed titles Le Trésorier and Le Président, flanked by a vignette of crossed fasces at the foot of the wreath. Series letter and number are contained in ruled panels at the lower left and lower right respectively, with the printer's imprint in small type at the base. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown on an uncoloured paper ground and is entirely composed of a large oval laurel wreath tied at the base with a ribbon bow, enclosing the numeral 1 above the word FRANC in bold letterpress, followed by the redemption clause in three lines of capital text. The design is unadorned beyond the wreath border, lending the reverse a deliberately plain, utilitarian character consistent with emergency chamber-of-commerce issues of the period. |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue small-denomination emergency notes after the wartime coin shortage of 1914–1915 stripped everyday commerce of its small change. Perpignan's chamber was among dozens across France that kept printing well into the early 1920s, long after the crisis that justified the practice had passed — the authorization simply wasn't revoked quickly enough to stop them.
Morer-Bénézet was a local Perpignan printer, not a specialist security press, which shows in the relatively modest production values of the series. The JP references covering this note span multiple emission dates and minor typographic variants across the 1919–1922 window.