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2 francs - Chambre de Commerce de Dieppe [76]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Dieppe |
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| Year | 1914-1925 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#52.7 à 9 |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE DIEPPE Émission approuvée par l'Administration Supérieure. Émission faite sous la garantie de la Chambre de Commerce. DEUX FRANCS Le Secrétaire Trésorier Le Président N° IMP. RICHARD. PARIS |
| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, largely unadorned, with a faint red guilloche underprint numeral 2 at centre. Three paragraphs of italic black letterpress text set out the conditions of circulation and reimbursement, followed by the serial number printed in large upright numerals at the foot of the note. |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes following the coin shortage that struck in August 1914, when the public immediately began hoarding metal currency at the outbreak of war. Dieppe's chamber was among the hundreds that scrambled to fill the gap, with printing contracted to Imprimerie Richard in Paris — a firm that handled a large volume of this emergency chambre de commerce work during the period.
The series ran an unusually long eleven years, reflecting how stubbornly the small-change shortage persisted well into the postwar reconstruction period. The watermarked paper was the primary security measure against counterfeiting at a purely local level.