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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Union Latine, Comité du Sud-Ouest (Toulouse) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Diameter | 26 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting a two-masted sailing vessel under full sail navigating choppy waves, rendered in relief against a striated sky background. A radiant sun with diverging rays appears in the upper left field. The circular legend reads 'UNION LATINE' along the upper periphery and 'COMITE DU SUD-OUEST' along the lower periphery. The engraver's initials 'GS' appear within the legend at the lower right. The design is executed in a bold, graphic Art Deco style characteristic of French interwar emergency coinage. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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The Union Latine emergency tokens issued from Toulouse in the early 1920s emerged from a nationwide small-change famine that had persisted since the First World War. The French state never adequately restocked bronze and copper coinage after wartime metal requisitions, leaving regional chambers of commerce and trade unions to fill the gap with locally authorized aluminium pieces.
The Comité du Sud-Ouest was one of several southwestern French commercial bodies empowered to issue necessity coinage; Toulouse-area pieces circulated across the Haute-Garonne and neighboring departments well into the mid-1920s before the state finally reasserted control over petty coinage.