2 Francs - Chambre de Commerce de Nantes 44

Emergency chamber of commerce notes like this one filled the coin vacuum that hit provincial France almost immediately after August 1914, when hoarding stripped small denominations from circulation within weeks of mobilization. The Nantes chamber was among the earliest to act, and its issues circulated hard — these were working notes, not curiosities, passed across market stalls and shop counters throughout the Loire-Atlantique.

Imprimerie Moderne de Nantes, operating under the Beuchet & Vanden Brugge imprint, handled the full run locally, which was the norm for chamber issues — Paris printers were overwhelmed and the logistics of wartime made local sourcing practical. The JP#88 reference covers three distinct date variants across the series.