10 Centimes - Union des Commerçants - La Réole [33] Brass

La Réole, a small Gironde river town, issued merchant federation tokens like this one in response to the catastrophic coin shortage that gripped France after World War I. The government's inability to supply adequate small change forced hundreds of local chambers of commerce and trade associations across the country to issue their own brass and aluminum tokens — a phenomenon that produced thousands of distinct types between roughly 1919 and 1927, most circulating only within a single town's shops.

The El Monnier reference gap signals this piece hasn't been fully catalogued in the standard French necessity coinage corpus — worth noting for provenance documentation.