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10 kilos acier ordinaire
| Issuer | O.C.R.P.I. - Office Central de Répartition des Produits Industriels |
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| Year | 1940-1948 |
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| Size | 93 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in blue and carries a large allegorical vignette at right, showing a dynamic classical scene with multiple figures — a standing male figure and a horse in a vigorous composition evoking industry and strength. At upper left, the issuing authority and validity date are set in letterpress, with the denomination '10 kg' in a dark inset panel at upper right. The lower half bears the denomination legend in bold letterpress, a serial number at centre-left, and two signature lines with manuscript facsimiles below titles for the Director of the Caisse Centrale d'Émission and the Director of the Sidérurgie Répartiteur. |
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| Reverse lettering | ENDOS CCETR La loi punit d'emprisonnement et d'amende quiconque falsifie, fabrique illicitement, met en circulation ou utilise irrégulièrement un titre de répartition. |
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The O.C.R.P.I. was the central French rationing authority established under Vichy in 1940 to manage industrial material allocation during the Occupation. These "bons de matières" — material vouchers — circulated not as currency but as administrative instruments, entitling the bearer to a fixed quantity of a controlled commodity, in this case ten kilos of ordinary steel. Postwar studies of the system note that the O.C.R.P.I. continued operating into the Liberation period, its machinery too embedded in the industrial supply chain to be immediately dismantled.
The voucher's paper construction made it inherently disposable — redeemed examples were typically cancelled or destroyed, which is why intact surviving specimens are genuinely uncommon.