Catalog
5 Centimes - Mairie de Laroque d'Olmes - Ariége
| Issuer | Mairie de Laroque-d'Olmes |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the issuing authority's name arranged in four horizontal lines across the central field, reading MAIRIE / DE / LAROQUE-D'OLMES / (ARIÈGE). The lettering is rendered in bold, raised sans-serif capitals without a surrounding border or additional decorative elements, occupying the full face of the coin in a plain, utilitarian style characteristic of French municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Laroque-d'Olmes, a small textile-manufacturing town in the Ariège department, issued emergency necessity coinage — monnaie de nécessité — during World War I when the French government's requisitioning of bronze and copper for munitions production effectively gutted the national small-change supply. Municipal and commercial tokens of this kind proliferated across France between 1914 and the early 1920s, with aluminium being the practical substitute of the moment. The Elvifrance Monnaies catalogue reference places this squarely within that documented local emission series.