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20 Francs - Union de commerçants de Béziers
| Issuer | Union des Commerçants de Béziers |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 20 Francs |
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| Obverse lettering | UNION DES COMMERÇANTS DE BÉZIERS SOCIÉTÉ ANONYME A CAPITAL VARIABLE SIÉGE SOCIAL 31, Avenue de la République,31 J´ai choisi ce jour an Magasin... porle sur la liste de vos fournisseurs des marchandises pour la somme de... SÉRIE C Nº 055,228 Nº DU COMPTE CADENAT FR BEZIERS 404 |
| Reverse description | The reverse repeats the central panoramic vignette of Béziers flanked by two allegorical figures, with the municipal coat of arms in the upper right corner. Text blocks carry the issuer's name, registered address, and commercial pledge formula. The printer's reference number appears at the lower edge. |
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Emergency fractional currency issued by a local merchants' association during the coin shortage that gripped France after the First World War. The Chambre de Commerce notes had become the standard vehicle for such stopgaps, but smaller commercial syndicates in provincial towns increasingly took matters into their own hands — the Union des Commerçants de Béziers being one such group, filling the gap with privately backed scrip redeemable against member businesses.
Cadenat Frères operated as a regional printing house in Béziers itself, which kept production costs and logistics local — unusual for notes of this scale, which more typically went to specialist security printers in Paris or Lyon.