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5 Francs - Commune de Cornimont [88]
| Issuer | Chagué & Cie, Cornimont |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 5 Francs |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the plain salmon-pink paper stock with the faint impression of the obverse letterpress text visible in mirror image through the thin paper. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Cornimont is a small textile-manufacturing commune in the Vosges, and this note belongs to the enormous wave of emergency municipal and commercial scrip that flooded France in the autumn of 1914 when the government suspended specie payments and small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation. Chagué & Cie was a local industrial firm, not a bank — its signature on a circulating note is a direct measure of how completely the normal monetary infrastructure had collapsed within weeks of mobilization.
The watermark is the only security concession. For a note backed by a textile company in a village of a few thousand people, it was probably enough.