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25 centimes - VILLE DE LOUVIERS 27
| Issuer | Ville de Louviers (Département de l'Eure) |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress note with a decorative guilloche border enclosing the municipal arms of Louviers at top centre, flanked by the issuer title. The denomination '25 CENTIMES' is set in bold type over a large red '0.25' underprint; date '27 Octobre 1916' appears at left, 'Emission Municipale' at right, with serial number and two manuscript signatures below. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse showing bleed-through of the obverse blue guilloche border and inscriptions in mirror image, with a large red '0.25' overprint centred on an otherwise unprinted field. |
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Louviers, a Norman textile town on the Eure river, issued emergency small-change notes during WWI because the war drained coinage from circulation almost immediately after mobilization in 1914. By 1916, municipalities across France were filling the vacuum with their own papier-monnaie de nécessité — the Louviers series being among hundreds of such local issues authorized under wartime necessity rather than any permanent monetary authority.
The JP (Jérôme Prieur) reference catalog remains the standard for these French emergency communal issues. Collector interest in the series tends to focus on printing variants and cancellation types rather than denomination.