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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Syndicat des Commerçants de Dunkerque |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1922 |
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Issued by the Syndicat des Commerçants de Dunkerque, this is a piece of French emergency commerce token coinage — the kind of locally organized monetary stopgap that proliferated across France and Belgium in the years immediately following World War I, when small change remained chronically scarce despite the armistice. The Channel port of Dunkerque had been heavily disrupted by wartime requisitioning and bombardment, making stable local exchange a practical necessity long after 1918.
The issuing body was a merchants' association, not a municipal authority — a distinction that mattered legally and explains why these tokens circulated on trust rather than legal tender status.