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25 Centimes Colonie de Précigné
| Issuer | Colonie de Précigné |
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| Year | 1914-1919 |
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| Value | 25 Centimes (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | COLONIE DE PRÉCIGNÉ BON de 25 centimes Le présent Bon n'aura cours qu'à la Cantine (Translation: Précigné colony. Voucher for 25 centimes. (this voucher will only be valid at the canteen)) |
| Reverse description | Plain blue paper bearing two manuscript signatures in black ink, with a large oval administrative handstamp of the Colonie de Précigné applied in blue, the role titles printed in letterpress flanking the signature area. |
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Précigné was an agricultural penal colony in the Sarthe department, operated by the French state to house juvenile offenders and young vagrants. During the First World War, disruption to the national coin supply prompted many such institutions — prisons, asylums, factories, municipalities — to issue their own small-denomination emergency scrip for internal use. These pieces circulated only within the colony's grounds and had no legal tender status outside its walls.
The blue paper stock is consistent with other Précigné emergency issues from the same period, distinguishing denominations by color rather than size.