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5 Centimes - Chambres de Commerce - Hérault [34] Brass
| Issuer | Chambres de Commerce de l'Hérault |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1921 - 1921-1924 - 100 |
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Issued by the Chambres de Commerce de l'Hérault during France's post-WWI small-change crisis, when the withdrawal of hoarded silver and the disruption of federal minting left local commerce effectively paralyzed. Departmental chambers of commerce across France were authorized to fill the gap with their own token issues, a stopgap that lasted well into the 1920s. The Hérault series, centered on Montpellier, circulated primarily across the coastal Languedoc trade network.
The authorization framework derived from a 1920 decree permitting chambres de commerce to issue fiduciary tokens redeemable at face value — redemption that, for many issues, was never fully honored once federal coinage normalized.