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5 Centimes - Chambre Syndicale des Commerçants - Perpignan [66]
| Issuer | Chambre Syndicale des Commerçants de Perpignan |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Technique | Printed |
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| Obverse lettering | PERPIGNAN 1920 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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French municipal and trade-body emergency tokens flooded local economies in the early 1920s as the wartime metal shortage persisted well past the Armistice. The Chambre Syndicale des Commerçants de Perpignan — a merchants' trade association, not a government authority — issued cardboard scrip because the central mint simply could not supply enough small-denomination coinage to meet everyday retail demand. Perpignan's position as a regional commercial hub near the Spanish border made the shortage particularly acute, with cross-border trade compounding the circulation pressure on low-value coins.
Cardboard nécessité tokens of this type degraded quickly in pocket and till, which accounts for the difficulty in finding survivors without significant edge wear or staining.