Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce d'Agen 47
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Agen |
|---|---|
| Year | 1914-1917 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 100 × 55 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Ce billet garanti par dépôt d'égale somme à la Banque de France est toujours échangeable aux guichets de la Succursale d'Agen, et devra, sous peine de prescription, y être présenté au remboursement dans un délai de trois ans à dater de ce jour. L'article 139 du Code Pénal punit des travaux forcés à perpétuité ceux qui auront contrefait ou falsifié les Billets. |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Without watermark |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Agen's Chamber of Commerce began issuing small-denomination emergency notes in 1914 as the wartime hoarding of coins — particularly copper and nickel — created acute change shortages across provincial France. The Lot-et-Garonne department was no exception. These chambres de commerce notes filled a gap the Banque de France had no mandate and little interest in filling at that denomination level.
The JP references cover multiple varieties across the series, with minor typographic differences between emissions sufficient to distinguish them catalogually but rarely remarked upon in general collections.