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10 Centimes Saint Mandé
| Issuer | Comité Municipal d'Alimentation de Saint-Mandé |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the legend VILLE DE ST MANDÉ is arranged concentrically in the central field in large incuse lettering. An outer circular legend reads COMITÉ MUNICIPAL D'ALIMENTATION, separated by a small dot stop at the base. The design is plain and utilitarian, consistent with municipally issued wartime necessity tokens. |
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| Reverse lettering | 10c_ |
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Saint-Mandé, a commune immediately east of Paris, issued local aluminum alimentary tokens during World War I when the French government's requisitioning of metals and disruption of normal commerce left municipalities scrambling to facilitate basic food transactions. These pieces were authorized by local food supply committees — the comités d'alimentation — created specifically to manage rationing and distribution at the municipal level when central supply chains collapsed under wartime pressure.
Aluminum was chosen precisely because it had negligible strategic value to military requisitioners.