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5 Centimes - Groupement de Commerçants - Poissy [78]
| Issuer | Groupement de Commerçants de Poissy |
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| Weight | 1.42 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Oval flan with a central round hole. The large numeral '5' dominates the field, rendered in a bold style with diagonal hatching or shading within the strokes, creating a distinctive decorative effect. The design is otherwise unadorned, with the denomination presented in stark isolation against the plain field. |
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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.