2 francs - Chambre de Commerce de Bordeaux [33]

The Chambres de Commerce emergency notes of 1914 exist because the French Treasury was wholly unprepared for the coin hoarding that swept the country within days of general mobilization. Small change vanished almost overnight, and regional chambers were authorized in August 1914 to print their own low-denomination bons — a stop-gap that, in Bordeaux's case, extended well into the war years across multiple series and control variants.

The JP#30.3 and 30.9–10 references indicate distinct emission batches, likely differentiated by control number ranges or minor typographic revisions rather than any substantive redesign. Bordeaux being a major Atlantic port city meant its commerce chamber had both the administrative capacity and the economic urgency to produce several such variants in rapid succession.