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50 Centimes - Chambre de commerce d'Angoulême [16]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Angoulême |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | Plain dark-green letterpress design centred on a large oval cartouche containing the guarantee text in French, set against a lightly ornamented background. The denomination 0,50 appears in circular medallions at the upper corners, and smaller oval cartouches bearing 3me Série are placed at the lower corners. The overall composition is simple and typographic, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
Angoulême's chamber of commerce began issuing small-denomination emergency notes in 1915 as the war drained the country of metallic coinage — a problem severe enough that hundreds of French chambers of commerce were granted the same stopgap authority that year. The Keller Frères printing house was a local firm, which kept production entirely within the Charente department rather than routing through Paris.
The JP#9-13/14/15 reference covers three catalogue varieties within this denomination, distinguished primarily by minor typographic and watermark differences. Worth examining closely before cataloguing individually.