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1 Franc - Chambres de Commerce de Lyon
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Lyon |
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| Year | 1914-1922 |
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| Printer | B. Arnaud, Villeurbanne, France (1898-1990) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue-green on a pale ground, with a dense guilloche border of floral and geometric motifs enclosing a lighter guilloche underprint bearing the repeated text CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LYON; the large numeral 1 and the word FRANC are set in the centre. A two-line redemption notice appears below the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 FRANC CE BILLET DEVRA ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉ AU REMBOURSEMENT AVANT LE 14 AOUT 1919 SAUF DÉCISION PROROGEANT CE DÉLAI |
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During the First World War, the acute shortage of small change across France prompted hundreds of chambers of commerce to issue their own emergency fractional currency — the Banque de France simply could not meet demand for low-denomination coin. Lyon's chamber was among the earliest and most prolific issuers, producing notes across a remarkably extended date range that reflects just how long the underlying coin shortage persisted well beyond the Armistice.
The volume of JP reference variants here — spanning at least sixteen listed types — points to repeated reissues as successive authorizations expired or stock ran low. B. Arnaud, a Villeurbanne printer active through most of the twentieth century, handled the full run.