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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Union des Commerçants Détaillants d'Épernay |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Issued by the Union des Commerçants Détaillants d'Épernay — a retailers' association in the heart of Champagne country — this piece belongs to the wave of French nécessité coinage that flooded local commerce after World War I left the national coinage supply badly disrupted. Small change had effectively vanished from circulation by 1915, hoarded or melted, and French chambers of commerce and trade associations filled the gap with aluminium and zinc tokens that persisted well into the 1920s. Épernay's champagne trade made it an unusually prosperous provincial town to be issuing such tokens.