10 Centimes - Société coopérative d'alimentation - Dortan [01]

Dortan is a small industrial commune in the Ain department, historically dependent on plastics manufacturing. Cooperative store tokens of this type were issued by worker-run purchasing societies — common across French industrial towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — allowing members to exchange labor credit for goods without touching the national currency. The Société coopérative d'alimentation functioned as both grocer and mutual aid mechanism, and its tokens effectively circulated as a local scrip within a closed membership economy.