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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce d'Abbeville 80
| Issuer | Ville d'Abbeville et Chambre de Commerce de l'Arrondissement d'Abbeville |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 | 50 · VILLE · D'ABBEVILLE · ART. 4 — La Banque de France recevra le dépôt des bons divisionnaires dont elle veut bien assurer l'échange. ART. 5. — La Banque de France ne délivrera pas de bons divisionnaires pour une somme inférieure à vingt francs. En attendant la liquidation définitive, tout porteur de bons ne pourra en exiger le remboursement à vue que lorsqu'il en présentera au moins pour cinquante francs. ART. 7. — La contre-valeur des bons divisionnaires non présentés à l'échange dans les trois mois qui suivront la date de l'arrêté de liquidation sera déposée à la Caisse municipale. La Caisse municipale sera tenue au remboursement de ces bons pendant cinq ans ; passé ce délai, les porteurs seront déchus de tous leurs droits. · CHAMBRE · DE · COMMERCE · · DE · L'ARRONDISSEMENT · D'ABBEVILLE · 50 | 50 |
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Abbeville's Chamber of Commerce began issuing emergency fractional notes during the First World War, when metal coinage vanished almost entirely from French circulation — hoarded, melted, or consumed by the war economy. This 1920 piece belongs to the postwar continuation of that necessity; the coin shortage outlasted the armistice by several years, and local chambers across France kept their emergency paper running well into the early 1920s.
Imprimerie Chaix was a serious Paris house, long associated with quality commercial and official printing. Léon Leclerc handled design for a number of northern French chamber issues in this period.