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20 Francs - Compagnie des Mines D'Anzin
| Issuer | Compagnie des Mines d'Anzin |
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| Year | 1914-1915 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Purple letterpress print on white paper. Flanking pillars carry vignettes of mining tools, while a lower central vignette presents a view of a 20th-century colliery. The denomination and issuer inscriptions are arranged in a formal typographic layout with guilloche underprint elements. |
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| Obverse lettering | Émission Garantie Par la compagnie des Mines D'Anzin Le Chef de la comptabilité et des Finances Le Directeur Général Coupure de Vingt Francs La loi punit le Contrefacteur 00305 SERIE 1 (Translation: Guaranteed Issue By the Mines D'Anzin company Head of Accounting and Finance The Director General Denomination of Twenty Francs The law punishes the Counterfeiter) |
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The Compagnie des Mines d'Anzin was one of the oldest coal-mining operations in France, chartered in 1757 — arguably the first large-scale joint-stock mining company in French history. When war mobilization in August 1914 severed normal banking and coin supply to the northern industrial regions, the company issued its own emergency scrip to keep paying workers and sustaining local commerce around Anzin, near Valenciennes.
The Valenciennes area fell under German occupation by late August 1914, which makes the precise circulation window for these notes extremely narrow and their survival genuinely uncertain.