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5 Centimes - Comité Municipal d'Alimentation Saint-Mandé
| Issuer | Comité Municipal d'Alimentation de Saint-Mandé |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The large numeral '5' dominates the field, accompanied by the denomination indicator 'c' to its upper right and a dash below, all enclosed within a beaded border (grènetis). A ram's head countermark appears to the left of the numeral, applied as a secondary punch. The reverse design is stark and functional, consistent with wartime emergency coinage intended for rapid identification of face value. |
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Saint-Mandé, a commune immediately east of Paris, issued these aluminium tokens through its Municipal Food Committee during the First World War, when metal shortages and the disruption of normal commerce forced hundreds of French municipalities to produce their own emergency small change. The Comité Municipal d'Alimentation was specifically a rationing body — these pieces circulated not as general currency but within the administered food supply system, redeemable against allocated goods rather than open-market purchases.
The two catalogue references suggest at least two die varieties exist for this type.