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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Commerçants Réunis d'Ouveillan |
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| Weight | 2.62 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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| Additional information |
Ouveillan is a small commune in the Aude, and this piece belongs to a category of French nécessité coinage that flourished when wartime metal shortages and coin hoarding left rural commerce effectively paralyzed. Local merchants — the *commerçants réunis* — pooled resources to issue fractional tokens that could circulate within their own trade network. These hyper-local issues were produced in enormous variety across southern France between roughly 1914 and 1922, and the Ouveillan brass pieces remain among the more obscure provincial examples, with the El Moniteur reference confirming only a handful of documented specimens.