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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce du Lot |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Weight | 1.7 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 25c- |
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The Chambre de Commerce du Lot issued aluminium emergency tokens during the early 1920s to address a nationwide shortage of small change that had plagued France since the First World War. The central government's inability to produce sufficient low-denomination coinage in the postwar years pushed dozens of regional chambers of commerce to issue their own necessity currency, legally sanctioned under temporary wartime and postwar legislation. The Lot department, centered on Cahors, was among the smaller issuing authorities.
Aluminium was chosen largely because metal costs had to be kept below the token's face value — a chronic problem that had rendered bronze impractical for the smallest denominations.