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1 Franc - Chambres de Commerce de Mâcon [71] et de Bourg [01]
| Issuer | Chambres de Commerce de Mâcon et de Bourg-en-Bresse |
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| Year | 1915-1921 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#78-01/03/04/05/06/08/10/12/14 |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRES DE COMMERCE MACON BOURG | UN FRANC | Le Président | Le Président | X. PERROUX & FILS MACON |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green and features an elaborate foliate vignette border composed of grapevines, fruit, and foliage enclosing the central denomination 1 FRANC in large bold type. A caduceus motif appears at the top centre of the border, and a Gallic rooster is positioned at the lower centre. Above the denomination the emission date EMISSION DU 1er Septbre 1915 is typeset, while below appears the redemption clause REMBOURSABLE EN BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE FRANCE JUSQU'AU 1er Sept.bre 1920; a text guilloche underprint repeating the names of both chambers fills the field. |
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The joint issue by the Chambres de Commerce de Mâcon and Bourg-en-Bresse was a practical response to the acute small-denomination coin shortage that crippled French retail commerce from 1914 onward — silver and bronze were being hoarded or melted, and the national banking apparatus had no mechanism to fill the gap quickly. Regional chambers stepped in across France under emergency legislation, producing their own papier-monnaie de nécessité. This particular collaboration between two Ain and Saône-et-Loire chambers was unusual enough to generate multiple distinct variants across its lifespan, reflected in the range of JP sub-references.
Printed locally by X. Perroux & Fils rather than one of the larger specialist houses, production quality is noticeably modest. The multiple JP references capture signature and date variants issued across six years of circulation.