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10 Centimes - ville de Besançon [25] Gold plated Brass
| Issuer | Ville de Besançon |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Besançon's 1917 municipal token belongs to a wave of emergency necessity coinage issued by French communes and chambers of commerce when the Third Republic's metal requisitioning for the war effort stripped local economies of small change. The Banque de France couldn't keep pace with demand for low-denomination coin, so municipalities stepped in. Besançon, the Doubs département capital and a town long accustomed to watchmaking precision, was among dozens that authorized their own fiduciary tokens under loosely supervised wartime provisions.
The gold plating on brass was a production choice, not a pretension — it distinguished the token visually from other municipal issues circulating simultaneously in the same region.