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10 Centimes - Union Commerciale et Industrielle - Frévent [62] Brass
| Issuer | Union Commerciale et Industrielle de Frévent et Environs |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Frévent is displayed centrally within a circular legend. The date 1922 appears below the arms in the lower field. The surrounding legend reads UNION · COMMERCIALE · & · INDUSTRIELLE above and · FRÉVENT · & · ENVIRONS · below, encircling the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | UNION · COMMERCIALE · & · INDUSTRIELLE 1922 · FRÉVENT · & · ENVIRONS · |
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Frévent, a small market town in the Pas-de-Calais, was among hundreds of French communes whose commercial life was effectively paralyzed after the First World War stripped the country of small-denomination coinage. Merchant associations across northern France issued chamber of commerce tokens throughout the early 1920s to fill the gap — the Banque de France had suspended convertibility and fractional coin production had never recovered from wartime metal requisitions. This piece is one of the more localized examples, issued not by a departmental chamber but by a single town's combined commercial and industrial union, suggesting a degree of monetary improvisation even by the standards of the period.