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25 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Cholet 49
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Cholet |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Diameter | 35 mm |
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| Reverse description | Central motif features a left-facing draped bust of Marianne, helmeted and wearing a classical headdress with ornate detailing, rendered in a fine engraved style. Behind her, a faint townscape with a church spire is visible in the lower left field. The denomination numeral 25 appears at the base in a cartouche. The circular legend BON · POUR 25 CENTIMES · VALABLE · JUSQU'A · 1920 runs along the border. The imprint IMP. ROBERT FP. NANTES and the designer credit M. LAURENTIN. PINX appear in the lower field, identifying the Nantes printer and the artist respectively. |
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| Reverse lettering | BON · POUR 25 CENTIMES · VALABLE · JUSQU`A · 1920 25 IMP . ROBERT FP . NANTES M . LAURENTIN . PINX |
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Cholet's chamber of commerce issued these cardboard necessities tokens in 1917 as the war had drained France of its metallic coinage — copper and nickel diverted to munitions, hoarding endemic, and the Banque de France offering no practical solution at the local level. Hundreds of French chambers of commerce filled the gap independently, producing their own emergency issues under a 1916 authorization that gave regional bodies temporary authority to circulate small denominations.
Cardboard tokens of this type rarely survived circulation in any condition; the material degrades rapidly with handling and humidity.