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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Société des Commerçants de Royan-sur-l'Océan |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Reference(s) | El Mon.#10.2 |
| Obverse description | Central depiction of the Cordouan lighthouse rising from stylized waves, with radiating light beams emanating from its lantern room. The date 1922 appears in the lower field beneath the lighthouse base. A circular legend surrounds the central device, reading SOCIÉTÉ·DES·COMMERÇANTS above and ROYAN·S/·L'OCÉAN· below, all within a plain raised rim. |
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| Reverse description | The face value '10 CENT' is inscribed within a plain rectangular frame at center, above which a decorative vine branch is depicted. Flanking the central rectangle on either side are stylized ears of wheat. The maker's name THEVENON appears below the rectangle in the lower field, within the plain raised rim. |
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Royan's merchant association issued these aluminium tokens in the early 1920s to address a chronic shortage of small change that plagued provincial French commerce following the First World War. The Banque de France had suspended bronze centime coinage during the war years and was slow to restore adequate small denomination supply, pushing hundreds of local chambers of commerce and merchant groups across France to issue their own emergency subsidiary currency — a phenomenon that produced thousands of distinct token types between roughly 1914 and 1924.
The Société des Commerçants de Royan-sur-l'Océan was one of the smaller issuing bodies in the Charente-Inférieure, and surviving examples tend to surface in above-average condition given their limited circulation radius.