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2 francs - Chambre de Commerce d'Elbeuf [76]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Elbeuf |
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| Year | 1917-1920 (1914-1925) |
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| Reference(s) | JP#20 à 21 55.3 |
| Obverse description | Blue letterpress emergency bon de caisse on a light ground, with a repeated guilloche-style text underprint reading 'VILLE D'ELBEUF ET CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE' across the entire field. The municipal arms of Elbeuf appear centrally at the top, flanked by the issuing authorities' names. Two ornamental cartouches frame the authorization and guarantee text at left and right, while the large red overprinted numeral '2' is superimposed over the bold central denomination 'DEUX FRANCS'. Three manuscript signature lines appear at the foot, representing the President of the Chamber of Commerce, the President of the Syndicat de la Fabrique, and the Mayor of Elbeuf. |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE D'ELBEUF CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ELBEUF Emission approuvée par l'Autorité supérieure Garantie de la Ville de la Chambre de Commerce et du Syndicat de la Fabrique 2 DEUX FRANCS Le Président de la Chambre de Commerce Le Président du Syndicat de la Fabrique Le Maire de la Ville d'Elbeuf |
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Elbeuf's Chamber of Commerce issued emergency small-change notes — known as monnaie de nécessité — to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metal coinage after 1914, when wartime hoarding and metal requisitions stripped French circulation bare. The Elbeuf series ran longer than most departmental issues, persisting well into the early 1920s as coin shortages outlasted the armistice by several years.
Elbeuf was a significant textile manufacturing center in the Seine-Maritime, and the Chamber's creditworthiness rested on that industrial base. The JP reference places this squarely within the Pirot corpus of French nécessité issues, catalogued by département.