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25 Centimes - Chambre Syndicale des Commerçants - Perpignan [66] Nickel-silver
| Issuer | Chambre Syndicale des Commerçants de Perpignan |
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| Year | 1917-1924 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse description | The coat of arms of the city of Perpignan occupies the central field, with the city name PERPIGNAN inscribed above and the date 1924 below the arms. The design is rendered in a plain, functional style typical of French emergency coinage of the period. The scalloped border frames the heraldic device within a raised rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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French emergency token coinage proliferated after 1914 when the hoarding of metal coins — driven by wartime uncertainty — created a severe shortage of small change across the country. Chambers of commerce and trade associations in dozens of cities stepped in to fill the gap, issuing their own fiduciary tokens under tacit government tolerance. Perpignan's Chambre Syndicale des Commerçants was one of the smaller regional bodies to do so, and its issues circulated locally well into the early 1920s, long after the crisis that prompted them had technically passed.