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5 Centimes - Chambres de commerce - Région provençale 'Four Towns' Aluminium Pattern
| Issuer | Chambres de Commerce de la Région Provençale |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | El Mon#10.5 |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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| Mintage | 1918 - Aluminium PATTERN |
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During World War I, the French state's metal requisitions and hoarding stripped small-denomination coinage almost entirely from circulation. Regional chambers of commerce across France responded by issuing their own emergency tokens — necessity pieces, not official currency. The Provençal region's chambers, spanning Marseille, Arles, Aix, and Apt, collaborated on a unified issue rather than each producing separately, which itself was unusual.
The aluminium pattern recorded as El Mon#10.5 precedes the issued type and likely represents a trial submission for design or alloy approval. Very few such patterns survive outside institutional collections.