Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 francs - Chambre de Commerce d'Elbeuf [76]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Elbeuf |
|---|---|
| Year | 1917-1920 (1914-1925) |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-white ground with no underprint, bearing four paragraphs of italic blue letterpress text setting out the redemption conditions of the bon divisionnaire. The text is arranged in a centred block occupying most of the note's surface, with wide margins on all sides and a faint circular stamp impression visible near the lower centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 1° Ces Bons sont remboursables en Billets de Banque à la Banque de France. 2° Le Conseil Municipal, la Chambre de Commerce et le Syndicat de la Fabrique détermineront l'époque de la liquidation de l'émission des Bons divisionnaires et de leur remboursement définitif. La contre-valeur des Bons divisionnaires non présentés à l'échange dans les trois mois qui suivront la date de l'arrêté de la liquidation sera déposée à la Caisse Municipale. La Caisse Municipale sera tenue au remboursement de ces Bons pendant deux ans à partir de la date de l'émission. Passé ce délai, les porteurs seront déchus de tous leurs droits. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
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.