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1 Franc - Chambres de Commerce de Belfort
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Belfort |
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| Year | 1915-1916 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BELFORT DÉLIBÉRATION DU 6 JANVIER 1916 UN FRANC SERIE AD 129 7,523 IMP.B.ARNAUD-LYON-PARIS |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Belfort's Chamber of Commerce issued emergency fractional notes from 1915 because the wartime hoarding of metal coinage had stripped small-denomination currency from daily commerce almost entirely. Chambers of commerce across France were authorized to fill that gap, and Belfort — geographically isolated as the capital of France's smallest department, surrounded on three sides by territory that had been German since 1871 — had particular reason to act quickly.
The JP reference covers an unusually wide spread of signature and date varieties for a single denomination, suggesting sustained reissue across the full 1915–1916 window. Printed by B. Arnaud in Villeurbanne, a Lyon-suburb firm with a long track record in commercial and administrative printing.