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1 franc - Chambre de Commerce du Tréport [76]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce du Tréport |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain blue on white, the reverse is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette. The redemption text is set in a flowing script typeface within a large oval frame, itself enclosed by a rectangular outer border of repeating guilloche scroll ornaments with decorative leaf motifs at each corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Les Bons émis par la Chambre de Commerce du Tréport sont échangés à présentation par dix ou multiples de dix contre des billets de la Banque de France. Leur remboursement est garanti par un dépôt d'égale valeur à la Banque de France au nom de la Chambre de Commerce du Tréport. |
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Le Tréport is a small fishing port at the mouth of the Bresle river in Seine-Inférieure, and its Chamber of Commerce had no business issuing currency under normal circumstances. The 1915 date explains everything: the wartime collapse of small-denomination coinage across France — hoarded, melted, simply gone — forced hundreds of provincial chambers to print emergency fractional notes just to keep local commerce moving. This series was part of that nationwide scramble.
Roy & Valade in Amiens handled printing for several northern chambers during this period. The watermark is the primary security concession on what was otherwise an inexpensive emergency production.