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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Tarbes 65
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Tarbes |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE TARBES - 1 FRANC - DÉLIBÉRATION DU 7 FÉVRIER 1915 - REMBOURSABLE AVANT LE 7 FÉVRIER 1920 - LE TRÉSORIER - LE PRÉSIDENT |
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| Reverse lettering | 1915 × 1920 1fr CE BILLET DEVRA ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉ EN REMBOURSEMENT A LA SUCCURSALE DE LA BANQUE DE FRANCE DE TARBES AVANT LE 7 FÉVRIER 1920 L. CASSAN AINÉ TOULOUSE |
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The Chambre de Commerce de Tarbes was one of dozens of French regional chambers that stepped in to issue emergency small-denomination notes after the outbreak of war in 1914 drained metal coinage from circulation almost overnight. The central government effectively encouraged this patchwork solution rather than coordinating a national one, which is why the surviving corpus of French chambre de commerce notes is so varied in quality, design, and longevity.
L. Cassan Ainé was a Toulouse commercial printer, not a security specialist — a fact worth keeping in mind when assessing the consistency of impression across the multiple JP reference variants listed in this series.