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5 Centimes - Union Commerciale Industrielle - Annonay [07] Brass
| Issuer | Union Commerciale & Industrielle d'Annonay |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Composition | Brass |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1918 |
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Annonay, a small industrial town in the Ardèche, issued these chamber of commerce tokens during the acute small-change shortage that gripped France after 1914. The wartime requisitioning of copper and nickel for munitions effectively killed normal coin production, leaving local merchants and manufacturers to fill the gap themselves. The Union Commerciale & Industrielle was one of hundreds of such bodies across provincial France that stepped in with brass and zinc pieces redeemable only within their own commercial networks.
The Elias Monnaies reference 10.4 distinguishes this among at least several Annonay issues from the same period.