25 Centimes

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.