1 Franc - Verrerie de Vauxrot 02

Verrerie de Vauxrot was a glassworks operation near Soissons in the Aisne département, and this note belongs to the wave of privately issued emergency scrip that flooded northern France during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. With Prussian forces disrupting commerce and small coin disappearing from circulation almost immediately, industrial employers across the region began issuing their own paper fractions to pay workers and facilitate local trade within their immediate economic orbit.

The firm of Deviolaine et Cie operated the glassworks at Vauxrot. These issues were purely functional instruments of necessity, redeemable only within a narrow local network, and most were destroyed or discarded once normal currency circulation resumed in 1871.