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5 Centimes - Groupement de Commerçants - Poissy [78]
| Issuer | Groupement de Commerçants de Poissy |
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| Composition | Zinc |
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| Obverse description | Oval flan with a central round hole. A caduceus is depicted beneath the hole at center, flanked by the inscriptions MARQUE and DÉPOSÉE on either side. The peripheral legend GROUPEMENT DE COMMERÇANTS DE POISSY encircles the design, running along the full circumference of the oval field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Emergency token coinage issued by French merchant associations — groupements de commerçants — proliferated during the German occupation of France in World War II, when metal shortages and Vichy-era monetary disruption left small change chronically absent from daily commerce. Poissy, an industrial town in the Seine-et-Oise department, produced zinc tokens like this one to keep local retail transactions functioning. Zinc was itself a controlled material under occupation authorities, which makes the sanctioned use of it here a minor bureaucratic curiosity.