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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce de Toulouse 31
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Toulouse |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#122- 27/28/29/30/31/32/33 |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE TOULOUSE Délibération du 20 juin 1917 Emission 1917 Le Trésorier Le Président SERIE 1 628325 |
| Reverse description | Green letterpress on pale paper, with four circular heraldic vignettes placed at each corner — upper left bearing a fleur-de-lis arms, upper right a castle arms, lower left a bell, and lower right a further civic coat of arms. A large central oval frame in guilloche encloses the redemption text in cursive script, with a decorative anchor and compass-rose underprint visible within the oval. Below the oval, a line of uppercase letterpress text references the ministerial circular governing the collateral deposit, with the printer's imprint at the lower left and 'TOULOUSE' at the lower right. |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency issues of the First World War filled a practical void created by hoarding and metal shortages — by 1917, fractional coinage had nearly vanished from French circulation, and regional commercial chambers were legally empowered to issue small-denomination paper substitutes. Toulouse's chamber turned to a local printer, Berdoulat, rather than a Paris house, which gives the series a noticeably regional character in its typography and production quality.
The JP# grouping across seven reference numbers reflects multiple date variants within the same basic design — the 1 Franc denomination ran through several emission dates, all redeemable only within the Haute-Garonne commercial zone.