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5 Centimes - Union Commerciale - Crecy-sur-Serre [02]
| Issuer | Union Commerciale du Canton de Crécy-sur-Serre |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | · UNION COMMERCIALE · CANTON 5ᶜ· DE CRECY-SUR-SERRE·AISNE |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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The Union Commerciale du Canton de Crécy-sur-Serre was one of hundreds of local merchant associations that issued aluminium nécessité tokens across rural France during the acute small-change shortages of the early twentieth century — shortages severe enough that village-level commerce effectively broke down without them. Crécy-sur-Serre sits in the Aisne, a department that saw some of the heaviest destruction of the First World War, and locally issued scrip in this region carried an urgency that purely economic explanations undersell.