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25 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Troyes 10
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Troyes |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green note with a fine letterpress text underprint repeating 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE TROYES' across the entire field. A large ornate cartouche at centre carries the bold numeral '25' in white relief, flanked by decorative foliate scrollwork. Below the cartouche appear two facsimile signature lines for the President and the Treasurer, with a serial number in blue at the foot; a dotted rectangular border frames the design at the edges. |
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| Reverse description | Blue-green note with the same repeating 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE TROYES' text underprint as the obverse. The large numeral '25' surmounts the word 'CENTIMES' in bold capitals at centre, above a small heraldic vignette of the Troyes coat of arms flanked by laurel branches. A scroll-shaped panel at the foot carries the redemption text in French, and a continuous border of stylised wheat ears and ribbon bows encloses the entire composition. |
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Emergency small-change notes from French chambres de commerce proliferated after 1914 when metal coinage disappeared almost overnight into hoarding and wartime melting. The Troyes chamber — serving the Aube département and its historically important textile trade — issued this 25 centimes note as a locally redeemable substitute, a stop-gap that the French state tolerated rather than officially endorsed.
JP#124-15 within the Troyes series suggests a relatively late or variant issue within what became a crowded local emission sequence.