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!
25 Centimes
| Issuer | Sannois, Commune of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Milled |
| Orientation | 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 | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | UNION DU COMMERCE & DE L`INDUSTRIE. SANNOIS · 1920 · |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Sannois, a small commune in the Seine-et-Oise department north of Paris, issued this token during the acute small-change shortage that gripped France in the years immediately following World War One. The French state's inability to supply adequate fractional coinage forced hundreds of municipalities, chambers of commerce, and private firms to print or strike their own emergency issues — a monetary patchwork that lasted well into the early 1920s.
The Elvira Morin reference (El Mon.) places this squarely within the specialized corpus of French commune issues, a collecting area where attribution depends almost entirely on that single catalog.