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10 Centimes - Issigeac 24
| Issuer | Commune of Issigeac |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the heraldic shield of the Dordogne department, quartered with four rampant lions and a central charge, surmounted by a mural crown. The shield is rendered in a simple engraved style with no surrounding legend, and the plain cardboard field is otherwise unadorned. |
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Issigeac is a small bastide town in the Dordogne, and like hundreds of French communes during the First World War, it issued its own emergency small change when the hoarding of metal coins and the disruption of normal supply collapsed the circulating currency. These cardboard nécessités were a purely local solution — valid only within the issuing community, printed in small quantities, and almost never redeemed after the war ended.
The survival rate for cardboard issues from rural Périgord is low. Most circulated until they disintegrated.