Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
2 Francs - Chambre de Commerce de Montluçon - Gannat 03
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Montluçon-Gannat |
|---|---|
| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Printed in dark blue on a pale pink paper with a repeated text underprint reading 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE MONTLUÇON-GANNAT'. The note is framed by a letterpress guilloche border with rosette corner ornaments. The denomination 'DEUX FRANCS' is set in large bold capitals at centre, flanked on each side by circular guilloche medallions bearing the numeral '2fr'. Below the denomination, two manuscript facsimile signatures appear under the titles 'Le Trésorier' and 'Le Président', separated by a circular official seal of the Chambre de Commerce de Montluçon-Gannat. The series letter and serial number are placed at lower left and lower right respectively, with the printer's imprint 'HERBIN & BOUCHÉ MONTLUÇON' at the foot of the note. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE MONTLUÇON - GANNAT Autorisation Ministérielle du 28 Avril 1916 Ce billet, garanti par dépôt d'égale somme à la Banque de France, est toujours échangeable aux guichets de sa succursale de Montluçon, et devra, sous peine de prescription, y être présenté au remboursement dans un délai de cinq ans à dater du 28 avril 1916. Ce billet ne sera valable que revêtu du timbre de la Chambre de Commerce. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Chambre de Commerce de Montluçon-Gannat was among the hundreds of French regional chambers forced into emergency currency issuance after the hoarding crisis of August 1914 stripped small-denomination coinage from everyday commerce almost overnight. By 1916, these locally printed bons had become the practical lubricant of Allier department's retail economy. Herbin & Bouché, a Montluçon house, handled production — local printer, local paper, local stamp — which makes the survival rate higher than for notes printed elsewhere and shipped in.
The JP#84-26/27 references indicate two distinguishable varieties, likely differentiated by stamp color or watermark batch.