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1 Franc - Ville et Chambre de Commerce d'Abbeville [80]
| Issuer | Ville d'Abbeville et Chambre de Commerce de l'Arrondissement d'Abbeville |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 | 1 VILLE D'ABBEVILLE ET CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE L'ARRONDISSEMENT D'ABBEVILLE UN FRANC N° 3,113,224 LE PRÉSIDENT, LE MAIRE, 1 | 1 L. LECLERC - FEC. CHAIX - IMP. |
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| Protection description | Without watermark |
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Abbeville's chamber of commerce notes, like hundreds of similar issues across French departments after 1914, filled a gap created by the near-total disappearance of small change during the war. The 1920 date places this in the extended emergency period — the French government authorized these local emissions provisionally in 1914, then kept renewing that authorization well into the early 1920s as the national coinage supply remained inadequate. Chaix, one of the larger commercial printers in Paris, handled a substantial portion of this provincial nécessité work, which likely kept unit costs down for smaller issuers like Abbeville.
JP#1-15 positions this within the first registered series for the arrondissement, suggesting an earlier plate or authorization than most surviving examples from the same chamber.