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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Société du Commerce de La Rochelle |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a view of the historic harbour of La Rochelle, featuring a sailing vessel moored before the iconic Tour de la Chaîne and Tour Saint-Nicolas, rendered in fine relief. The circular legend reads SOCIÉTÉ DU COMMERCE in the upper arc and LA ROCHELLE in the lower arc, each flanked by raised dot stops. The date 1922 appears in the lower field beneath the harbour scene. The overall design evokes the maritime commercial heritage of the port city. |
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| Obverse lettering | SOCIÉTÉ DU COMMERCE 1922 · LA ROCHELLE · |
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La Rochelle's Chamber of Commerce token issues from the early 1920s emerged from the acute small-change shortage that gripped provincial France after World War I. The Banque de France, unable to meet demand for low-denomination coin, effectively ceded that function to local commercial associations and chambers, which issued aluminium and cardboard tokens by the hundreds across French departments. The Société du Commerce de La Rochelle was among the smaller issuing bodies — not a full chambre de commerce in the formal sense — which accounts for the relative obscurity of this piece in most French notgeld surveys.