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2 Francs - Chambre de Commerce de Béthune 62
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Béthune |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BETHUNE DEUX FRANCS Le Trésorier Le Président Ces Coupures sont reçues par toutes les Caisses Publiques de l'Arrondissement de Béthune Ces Coupures peuvent être échangées à présentation contre des Billets de la Banque de France 17 Avril 1916 Série 250 0,557 Imp. Richard, Paris |
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| Reverse lettering | Ce Bon devra être présenté au remboursement dans un délai de cinq ans à dater de la signature de la paix. A toute époque, les Bons peuvent être présentés à l'échange contre des billets de la Banque de France, par quantité minimum de Cinquante francs ou en complétant à concurrence de cette somme par des billets de Banque ou du numéraire. |
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Béthune sits in the Pas-de-Calais, roughly fifteen kilometers from the front lines as they stabilized in late 1914. The town's Chambre de Commerce issued these small-denomination emergency notes because the wartime hoarding of coin had made daily commerce almost impossible — a problem replicated across dozens of French provincial towns simultaneously, each printing their own local solutions.
The JP#26-19/20 reference covers two distinct signature varieties within this type. Imprimerie Richard, the Paris printer, handled a large volume of such wartime nécessité issues, which occasionally makes precise attribution tricky when notes lack clear series markings.