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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Bayonne 64
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bayonne |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Size | 90 × 63 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | DÉPARTEMENT DES BASSES-PYRÉNÉES NUNQUAM POLLUTA CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BAYONNE VIGET ET ODE URBIS PALLADIUM ET GENTIS Ce billet devra être présenté au remboursement avant le 1er Mars 1920 |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes in August 1914, when the mobilization for the First World War triggered an immediate hoarding crisis that drained coined silver and bronze from circulation almost overnight. Bayonne's chamber was among the earliest provincial issuers, and its 50 centimes notes filled the gap left by the disappearance of coins worth one, two, five, ten, and twenty-five centimes — a practical catastrophe for daily market transactions in a busy border city.
The JP#21 reference covers at least eight distinct varieties within this type, distinguished by date, serial range, or minor typographic differences — a detail worth attending to, since market values across the variants are uneven.