1 Franc - Chambre de commerce - Ziguinchor

Ziguinchor, isolated in the Casamance region of French Senegal and physically separated from the rest of the colony by the Gambia, had chronic difficulties receiving adequate coinage from Dakar. The Chambre de Commerce issued these aluminium emergency tokens in 1921 to fill the gap — a locally authorized stopgap during persistent small-denomination shortages that plagued French West African trade in the years immediately following the First World War.

Élie catalogues multiple variants for this type; mon#10.3 distinguishes a specific die state within that sequence.