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2 Francs - Chambre de commerce de Libourne
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Libourne |
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| Year | 1917-1921 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#72.20 |
| Obverse description | Seventh series emergency note authorized by deliberation of September 23, 1920, redeemable by end of December 1925. Text specifies the issuing chamber, denomination, series, and repayment terms, with two manuscript signature lines for the Treasurer and Chairman. Six-digit serial number printed in black. |
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| Protection description | Bees |
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Libourne's chamber of commerce began issuing emergency small-change notes in 1914 when the wartime hoarding of coins created a near-total breakdown in retail transactions across provincial France. The Wetterwald Frères firm in Bordeaux handled enormous volumes of this regional nécessité paper, supplying dozens of southwestern chambers simultaneously — which occasionally makes attribution of undated or poorly stamped examples genuinely tricky.
The JP#72.20 reference places this within a well-documented Gironde series, but the 1917–1921 window is unusually wide for a single type, suggesting the plates saw multiple print runs as coin shortages persisted well past the Armistice.