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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Carcassonne, Commune of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Weight | 1.3 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral 10 dominates the central field in bold relief, with the denomination abbreviation cent. inscribed immediately below in a smaller italic typeface. The legend UNION DES COMMERÇANTS curves along the upper periphery, with the manufacturer's attribution DUSEAUX PARIS appearing at the lower rim in small lettering. Three small stars are evenly spaced along the lower border, flanking a small lozenge mintmark, lending the design a modest decorative character consistent with First World War-era French emergency coinage. |
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Carcassonne's aluminium emergency issues of 1917 belong to the vast wave of French municipal token coinage — monnaie de nécessité — that flooded local economies after the wartime disappearance of small bronze and copper coinage, metals diverted entirely to munitions production. Hundreds of French communes, chambers of commerce, and private entities struck their own subsidiary pieces during this period, and aluminium became the default material precisely because it had no meaningful strategic value to the military.
The El Mon. #20.2 reference distinguishes this from at least one other Carcassonne type in the same series.