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1 Franc - Chambres de Commerce de Cahors
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Cahors |
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| Year | 1917-1919 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#35-22/24 |
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| Obverse lettering | CCC Série L 05188 INDUSTRIE CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CAHORS AGRICULTURE UN FRANC Le Trésorier, Le Président, LIBERTÉ - ÉGALITÉ - FRATERNITÉ - 1919 1923 RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE LOT |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DU LOT DÉLIBÉRATION DU 17 SEPTEMBRE 1919 AUTORISATION MINISTÉRIELLE DU 23 OCTOBRE 1919 UN FRANC Ce Bon émis par la Chambre de Commerce du Lot est valable dans tout le département. Garanti par dépôt au compte du Trésor, il y est échangeable par dix ou multiple de dix contre des billets de la Banque de France Il devra être présenté dans tout le département du Lot au remboursement avant le 1er Décembre 1923, sous peine de prescription, sauf décision modifiant ce délai. CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE . DU LOT . TOUTE IMITATION OU OPERATION FRAUDULEUSE SERA PUNIE SELON LA LOI. IMP. P. DUMONT. LIMOGES |
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Cahors issued its own fractional emergency notes during the coin shortage that gripped France throughout the First World War — a shortage so acute that hundreds of individual Chambres de Commerce across the country were authorized to produce their own low-denomination paper. The Limoges firm of Pierre Dumont handled a significant share of this regional work, and their output for Lot department issuers is well documented.
The JP#35-22/24 sequence covers three distinct dated varieties within the 1917–1919 window. Collectors should note that the watermark security feature — modest by any standard — was the primary distinguishing element separating these notes from outright forgeries, of which provincial wartime issues attracted more than a few.