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5 kilos de tôle mince
| Issuer | O.C.R.P.I. (Office Central de Répartition des Produits Industriels) |
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| Year | 1940-1948 |
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| Size | 92 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette rendered in intaglio-style letterpress shows an armoured equestrian figure — a warrior or allegorical martial personage — brandishing a sword aloft while mounted on a rearing horse, set against a swirling wave-like underprint. To the upper right, the denomination '5 kg' appears within a hatched rectangular cartouche. Two manuscript signatures appear at the lower portion, one below the title 'LE DIR. DE LA CAISSE CENTRALE D'ÉMISSION' at left and one below 'LE DIR. DE LA SIDÉRURGIE RÉPARTITEUR' at right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, titled 'ENDOS' at top centre, is composed entirely of a fine guilloche mesh underprint in olive-green, enclosed within a decorative border of repeated geometric motifs. At centre, a large diamond-shaped vignette in plain ground bears the acronym 'cCETR' in bold letters. At the lower portion, a rectangular framed panel carries the statutory anti-forgery warning in French. |
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The O.C.R.P.I. was created by the Vichy government in 1940 to administer the allocation of industrial raw materials under German occupation — rationing not just food and fuel but metals, textiles, and manufactured goods. These "bons de matières" were the mechanism: a holder presented the slip to claim a fixed quantity of a controlled commodity from an authorized supplier. This particular bon entitled the bearer to five kilograms of thin sheet metal, a basic industrial input that became tightly controlled as German requisitioning stripped French industry of steel reserves.
The office continued operating after Liberation, finally wound down as emergency controls were lifted in the late 1940s.