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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Union Commerciale & Industrielle Viganaise, Le Vigan |
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| Reference(s) | El Mon.#10.3 |
| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Le Vigan, featuring the monogram 'VV' (or 'XX') on the escutcheon, surmounted by five stars and flanked by decorative mantling, with a crescent at the base. The heraldic device is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, and the circular legend 'UNION COMMERCIALE & INDUSTRIELLE VIGANAISE' runs along the outer border, interrupted at the base by a six-pointed star. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Le Vigan, a small textile town in the Gard département, issued these brass nécessité tokens during the acute small-change shortages that plagued provincial French commerce in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Union Commerciale & Industrielle Viganaise was a local merchant cooperative — the kind of body that stepped in precisely because the national mint could not reliably supply low-denomination coinage to rural markets. Redeeming these tokens required physically returning to a participating member merchant, which made wider circulation self-limiting by design.