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25 Sous
| Issuer | Caisse Patriotique de Lyon |
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| Year | 1793 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note framed by a continuous decorative border of repeated ornamental units. The heading SIEGE DE LYON appears in large capitals at the top, followed by the denomination statement Bon pour VINGT-CINQ Sous and a redemption clause specifying payment in Assignats; the Roman numeral XXV is repeated in the upper corners and centrally below a manuscript signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | SIEGE DE LYON. Bon pour VINGT-CINQ Sous A rembourser en Assignats de 25 livres à 400 livres. XXV |
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The Caisse Patriotique de Lyon operated during one of the most violent episodes of the Revolution: Lyon had defied the National Convention and was besieged, then systematically punished after its fall in October 1793 — the city was briefly renamed "Commune-Affranchie" and its monuments ordered demolished. Local emergency issuers like this one were functioning in the months immediately before or during that catastrophe, filling a void left by the near-total collapse of commercial life under siege conditions.
Assignat denominations rarely descended to the sous level from national issuers, which is precisely why municipal caisse notes at this fractional value existed at all.