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5 Francs Bouisseville
| Issuer | Villa No. 1, Bouisseville |
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| Year | 1942-1945 |
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| Value | 5 Francs |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on yellow paper stock. Three anchor symbols arranged in a triangular grouping at centre. All text set in bold serif type with issuer name and denomination inscriptions distributed across the face. |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLA NO. 1 BOUISSEVILLE FOOD AND LIQUOR CHIT 5 FRANCS |
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During the German occupation of France, a number of agricultural estates and rural communities issued their own emergency scrip to manage local wages and transactions — this 5 Francs note from Villa No. 1, Bouisseville is one such example. The issuer was almost certainly a private agricultural domain rather than a municipal authority, a common arrangement in rural southern France when coin shortages and supply disruptions made small-denomination exchange difficult.
The yellow paper stock is a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure frequently employed by private issuers of this type, who lacked access to security printing but could at least distinguish their scrip by substrate.