2 Francs - Chambre de Commerce d'Amiens [80]

When the German advance into northern France in August 1914 caused a near-total collapse of everyday commerce, local chambers of commerce across the region began issuing their own emergency notes to replace coinage that had vanished from circulation almost overnight. Amiens was among the earliest to act. These fractional notes — 2 francs being the workhorse denomination — were printed by a local press with no particular security infrastructure, which is why the watermark is the only meaningful anti-counterfeiting measure present.

The Imprimerie du Progrès de la Somme operated continuously until its destruction in 1944, making surviving paper from this period a minor footnote in the press's own history.