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1 Franc - Chambres de Commerce du Tarn [81]
| Issuer | Chambres de Commerce du Tarn |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Printer | L. Cassan Ainé, Toulouse, France |
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| Obverse description | Blue-framed note with a classical architectural vignette: two columns support a vault spanning the upper portion of the design, with a draped female allegorical figure seated at left and right. The coats of arms of Castres, Mazamet, and Albi appear at upper left, upper right, and lower centre respectively. The denomination and issuing authority are inscribed across the central panel, with facsimile signatures of the presidents of each of the three chambers of commerce and the printer's imprint at the base. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-framed reverse with ornamental guilloche borders enclosing a double oval cartouche at centre. Within the cartouche, text specifies the denomination and sets out the conditions of reimbursement, noting that the equivalent value has been deposited with the Public Treasury in Banque de France notes and that redemption is to be effected by the Treasury offices of the Tarn département before 31 December 1922, subject to forfeiture. |
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The Chambres de Commerce du Tarn issued emergency fractional notes in 1914 as small-change coinage vanished almost immediately upon mobilization — hoarded by a civilian population braced for war. Hundreds of French regional chambers issued their own paper during this period, but the Tarn series is among the earlier provincial responses, printed locally by Cassan Ainé in Toulouse rather than through any centralized arrangement.
The JP# reference covers three catalogue variants under a shared design, distinguished by signature or date combinations. Worth verifying which applies before cataloguing further.