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50 Centimes - Chambre de commerce d'Angoulême [16]

Issuer Chambre de Commerce d'Angoulême
Year 1915
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Reference(s) JP#9-13/14/15
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Obverse lettering 3me Série | 3me Série FORTITUDO MEA CIVIUM FIDES CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ANGOULÊME 50 CENTIMES LE TRÉSORIER | LE PRÉSIDENT ÉMISSION DU 15 JANVIER 1915 02320 0,50 | 0,50 IMP. KELLER FRÈRES, ANGOULÊME
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Reverse lettering 0,50 | 0,50 Ce Bon garanti par dépôt d'égale somme à la Banque de France est toujours échangeable aux guichets de sa succursale d'Angoulême et devra sous peine de prescription y être présenté au remboursement dans le délai de cinq ans à dater de ce jour. 3me Série | 3me Série
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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.

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