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.
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.