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10 Centimes - Ville de Bessières 31
| Issuer | Mairie de Bessières (Town Hall of Bessières) |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light blue cardboard field bearing the issuer's name and denomination in printed Latin characters arranged in five lines. The legend VILLE DE BESSIÈRES appears at the top in bold uppercase letters, separated from the large numeral 10 by a decorative wavy rule. Below the numeral, the word Centimes appears followed by a stop, and the date — 1918 — is printed at the base flanked by dashes. The typeset design is entirely non-pictorial, relying solely on text and a simple ornamental divider. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Bessières, a small commune in Haute-Garonne, issued cardboard emergency money during the First World War alongside hundreds of other French municipalities cut off from adequate small-change supply after the hoarding crisis of 1914 drove bronze and copper coins out of circulation almost overnight. The Banque de France's inability to meet local demand pushed town halls across southern France into printing their own fiduciary tokens — legally dubious, practically essential.
The two JP catalog references suggest at least two distinct emission types exist for this denomination, likely differentiated by paper stock, color, or overprint date within the 1916–1918 window.