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1 Franc - Town of Compiègne
| Issuer | Ville de Compiègne (Municipality) |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Size | 165 × 100 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE COMPIÈGNE BONS DE CIRCULATION PREMIÈRE ÉMISSION UN FRANC N° VILLE DE COMPIÈGNE BONS DE CIRCULATION 1re Emission de 25,000 FRANCS, garantie par la Ville et les Conseillers municipaux (Délibération du 30 octobre 1870). BON DE UN FRANC Remboursable trois mois après la signature du traité de paix. N° Les Conseillers municipaux délégués, Le Maire, Compiègne. Imp. Valliez. |
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| Protection type | Embossed stamp |
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Compiègne issued this note during the Franco-Prussian War, when Prussian forces were advancing through the Oise département and conventional currency had effectively dried up. Municipal emergency paper of this kind — issued under local authority rather than the Banque de France — was a direct response to the economic paralysis that preceded and followed the Siege of Paris. The embossed stamp was the municipality's primary defense against forgery, modest by any standard but typical of what a provincial printing house could realistically produce under wartime conditions.
Valliez was a local Compiègne printer, not a specialized security note manufacturer, which shows in the execution.