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1 Franc - Town of Mulhouse [68]
| Issuer | Ville de Mulhouse (Municipal Commission) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 92 × 58 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 FRANC La contre-valeur de ces Bons, créés en vertu de la décision de M. Le Conseiller d'Etat, commissaire de la République, à Colmar, en date du 18 Décembre 1918, est déposée au Trésor. Leur remboursement a lieu à la recette municipale de la Ville de Mulhouse, avant le 31 Décembre 1920 sauf décision prorogeant ce délai. 1 F. | 1 F. Le Receveur municipal Commission municipale Président |
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| Protection description | No watermark. |
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Mulhouse spent most of WWI under German administration — the town had been part of the German Reich since 1871. French forces briefly occupied it in August 1914 before being pushed back, and it was not permanently retaken until November 1918. This note was issued in that final year of the war, almost certainly after the November armistice brought the town back under French control, which is precisely why it reads as a French municipal emission rather than a German one.
The JP#132.02 reference places it within the Jérôme Prieur corpus of French emergency chamber of commerce and municipal issues — a category that exploded across northeastern France and Alsace-Lorraine as coin disappeared from circulation. The watermarked paper was a modest but deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure at a time when municipal printing budgets were thin.