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2 Francs - Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer 62
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Repeated text watermark reading CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BOULOGNE-SUR-MER visible across the entire note surface as a pale underprint. |
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Boulogne-sur-Mer's Chamber of Commerce began issuing emergency fractional notes in August 1914, within days of general mobilization. The sudden hoarding of coin — a reflex repeated across France that summer — stripped local commerce of the small change needed for daily transactions. Chambers of commerce across northern France stepped in as de facto issuers, a role they had no legal mandate for but that the Banque de France quietly tolerated rather than contest.
The JP#31-13 reference places this within the Pirot-Jeanpierre classification of French necessity issues. Northern Pas-de-Calais chambers produced some of the most heavily used emergency paper of the war, given the proximity to the front and the disruption to normal banking.