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1 Franc - Ville et Chambre de Commerce de Rouen 76
| Issuer | Ville de Rouen et Chambre de Commerce de Rouen |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | UN FRANC VILLE DE ROUEN CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE ROUEN LE MAIRE LE PRÉSIDENT Nº 414,274 IMP. RICHARD, PARIS. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Rouen's combined municipal and chamber of commerce issues were among the more administratively unusual of the French emergency currency wave — most localities issued through one authority or the other, not both jointly. The JP#110-03 and 04 variants share the same Richard printing but differ in date or signature combinations, a distinction that matters to series collectors and is easily missed without direct comparison.
Richard's Paris atelier handled a substantial volume of WWI-era necessity notes, and the watermarked paper was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure at a time when local issues proliferated rapidly and verification was difficult.