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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Bayeux, Commune of |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE BAYEUX B X |
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| Reverse lettering | UNION COMMERCIALE ET INDUSTRIELLE 25c. · 1922 · |
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Bayeux issued its own small-denomination token coinage in the early 1920s as a direct response to the postwar shortage of French state-issued fractional currency — a problem that plagued hundreds of French municipalities simultaneously. The aluminium composition was chosen not for tradition but for necessity: the metal was cheap, lightweight, and available when bronze and nickel were not reliably so.
Bayeux's chamber of commerce-style issues from this period fall within a broader wave of French emergency municipal coinage that peaked between 1920 and 1924, after which Paris reasserted centralized production of small change.