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1 Franc - Chambre de Commerce du Gers [32]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce du Gers |
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| Year | 1921-1922 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DU GERS DÉLIBÉRATION DU 6 JUILLET 1921 SÉRIE R N°236936 1fr. Le Trésorier Le Président Ce billet dont la Contrevaleur est déposée au Trésor est remboursable aux Caisses publiques du Gers avant le 31 Décembre 1925. TH. BOUQUET & Cie AUCH |
| Reverse description | A richly composed allegorical vignette in red and green tones fills the full face within an arched architectural border supported by ornamental urns; the upper register carries a row of five heraldic shields of Gascon towns surmounted by crowns, flanking the interlaced 'CG' monogram of the Chambre de Commerce. A pastoral landscape below shows horses to the left and cattle to the right grazing among trees, with wine barrels, maize, wheat sheaves, and flowering plants arranged in the foreground to symbolise the agricultural wealth of the Gers department. The denomination '1fr.' appears centred within a cartouche at mid-field, with the printer's imprint in the lower margin. |
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The Chambre de Commerce du Gers was one of dozens of French regional chambers that stepped in to fill the small-denomination void left by wartime coin hoarding — a problem that persisted well into the early 1920s, long after the Armistice. These locally issued bons de nécessité were legal under emergency provisions but operated outside the Banque de France's jurisdiction entirely.
Th. Bouquet & Cie printed this in Auch, the departmental capital of Gers, making it one of the relatively few French necessity notes produced by a strictly local press rather than a Parisian house. The JP#15 series covers multiple face values and date variants across this issuer.