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25 Centimes - Union des commerçants - Montagnac [34]
| Issuer | Union des Commerçants de Montagnac |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the large denomination numeral '25' with a superscript 'C' to its right, occupying the majority of the flan. A circular legend reading 'UNION DES COMMERÇANTS' curves along the upper periphery, while '* MONTAGNAC *' is inscribed along the lower periphery, each separated by small lozenge ornaments. The design is bold and utilitarian, characteristic of French local emergency coinage of the early twentieth century. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Montagnac, a small wine-producing commune in the Hérault, issued this brass jeton through its local merchants' union during the period of acute small-change shortages that plagued provincial French commerce in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Municipal and commercial tokens of this type filled a genuine gap — the state simply could not keep enough low-denomination coinage in circulation across rural regions, and local traders absorbed the inconvenience themselves. The Élias Montagne reference catalogues several distinct types from this union, and the 10.3 designation places this among the later or variant strikes in that sequence.