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20 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Blois |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Engraver(s) | J. Bory |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | SYNDICAT INDUSTRIEL ET COMMERCIAL 20 CENT 1918 * |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency coinage of WWI France emerged because the wartime metal requisitions and hoarding that began in 1914 stripped ordinary commerce of its small change almost entirely. Blois, like dozens of other regional chambers, was authorized to fill the gap with locally issued aluminium tokens — a stopgap that in practice ran well past the Armistice. These issues circulated within their issuing district only, making cross-regional survival in any quantity genuinely uncommon.