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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce d`Eure et Loir [28]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Eure-et-Loir |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | 28 February 1923 |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress bon on a guilloche underprint bearing the repeated legend CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE EURE & LOIR. The issuer's title is set within an ornate oval cartouche at the top centre, flanked by decorative foliate scrollwork and four heraldic shields of the department's principal towns at the corners. The large denomination numeral '50 CENTIMES' dominates the centre, below which a circular official seal of the Chambre de Commerce d'Eure-et-Loir bearing a caduceus is flanked by manuscript signatures of the Président and the Trésorier. A guarantee panel at the foot reads GARANTI PAR UN DÉPÔT AU TRÉSOR PUBLIC, with the printer's imprint at the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | CHÂTEAUDUN CHARTRES NOGENT-LE-ROTROU DREUX 1920 50c. Ces Bons seront remboursables à Chartres en billets de la Banque de France à toute époque, JUSQU'AU 28 FÉVRIER 1923, par groupes de dix au moins de chaque coupure. |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes during and after the First World War to address a severe shortage of coins — silver and bronze had been hoarded or melted down, and the national mint could not keep pace with demand. The Eure-et-Loir chamber's issues were printed locally by Trochard in Chartres, which was standard practice for the smaller departmental issuers who lacked contracts with the major Paris or Lyon houses.
JP#45.9 places this within a well-documented series. The Trochard-printed notes are generally found in circulated grades; the paper wears quickly and the watermark is often difficult to read clearly in heavily used examples.