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10 Centimes Amiens
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Amiens |
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| Year | 1920-1922 |
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| Composition | Aluminium |
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| Obverse lettering | AMIENS 1920 J.BORY |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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After the First World War left French mints overwhelmed and small-denomination coinage chronically scarce, hundreds of regional Chambers of Commerce were authorized to issue their own emergency tokens. Amiens, a city that had sat within artillery range of the Western Front for much of the war, was among them. The aluminium composition reflects the postwar material shortages that made bronze and cupro-nickel impractical for low-denomination issues at the time.
Three distinct varieties are catalogued under this type, differentiated by die characteristics recorded in the El Monnedas references.