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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 lettering | VILLE DE BESSIÈRES 10 Centimes. - 1918 - |
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| Reverse 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.