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2 francs - Chambre de Commerce de Lure [70]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Lure |
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| Year | 1918-1921 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie B. Arnaud, Villeurbanne, France (1898-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Orange and brown letterpress note with an elaborate guilloche border composed of interlocking diamond and rosette corner ornaments. The issuer's title appears in a decorative scroll cartouche at top, with the denomination DEUX FRANCS in large bold type at centre flanked by numeral 2 on each side; two red circular official seals of the Chambre de Commerce de Lure (Haute-Saône) are affixed at centre, above the handwritten signatures of the Trésorier and the Président. Series and serial number appear at lower left and right respectively, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LURE Délibération du 9 Septembre 1918 DEUX FRANCS 2 Le Trésorier Le Président SERIE 11 0,401 IMP. B.ARNAUD LYON PARIS |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency notes of the First World War period exist because the French banking system simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving. Lure, a modest textile and industrial town in the Haute-Saône, issued through its Chamber of Commerce like dozens of other provincial bodies empowered by the decree of 30 January 1918 — one of the more pragmatic pieces of wartime economic legislation, authorizing local commercial bodies to fill the void left by hoarded and melted coinage.
Imprimerie B. Arnaud, based in Villeurbanne on Lyon's industrial eastern edge, was a prolific supplier of these provincial necessity notes and handled numerous Chambre de Commerce contracts across the region. The JP#76.30 reference places this squarely within the Jérôme Prieur corpus of French local emergency issues.