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5 Centimes
| Issuer | Union Commerciale et Industrielle de Saint-André-de-l'Eure |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Diameter | 21 mm |
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| Obverse description | The entire field is occupied by the name of the issuing body in six lines of bold raised lettering: UNION / COMMERCIALE / ET INDUSTRIELLE / DE / SAINT ANDRÉ / DE L'EURE. The date 1921 appears in the lower portion of the field, flanked by two raised dots on either side, with a plain raised rim encircling the design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Saint-André-de-l'Eure is a small Norman market town, and its chamber of commerce token issue from 1921 belongs to the broader wave of French nécessité coinage that flooded local circulation after World War I stripped the country's small-change supply. The Banque de France's wartime withdrawal of bronze and copper left towns and commercial associations across France issuing their own aluminium and cardboard substitutes well into the early 1920s. Aluminium was the practical choice: cheap, lightweight, and outside the metals commandeered for the war effort.