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25 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de La Roche s/ Yon and de la Vendée 85
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de La Roche-sur-Yon et de la Vendée |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Size | 100 × 68 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue-green on cream paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative braided border with a laurel-and-oak vignette surrounding the municipal coat of arms at top centre. Two rural vignettes flank the central text panel: at left, a sower striding across a field, and at right, a peasant woman tending livestock. A repeated guilloche underprint bearing the issuer's name fills the central panel behind the denomination inscription and facsimile signatures of the Président and Trésorier, with series and serial number below; the printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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French chambers of commerce began issuing small-denomination emergency paper in 1914–1915 to combat the near-total disappearance of bronze and nickel coinage, which had been hoarded or absorbed by wartime metal demands. La Roche-sur-Yon's chamber was among dozens across France that turned to local printers rather than waiting on Paris. Imprimerie Moderne de Nantes — operating under Beuchet & Vanden Brugge — supplied several regional chambers during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance found across Vendée and Loire-Atlantique issues of the same years.
The JP#65 series spans four catalogue numbers for this denomination, reflecting documented varieties in date or text placement rather than separate authorizations.