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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Beauvais et de l'Oise 60
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Beauvais et de l'Oise |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Designer(s) | Léon Leclerc |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress note with a dense green guilloche underprint repeating the issuer name and denomination across the entire field. A decorative cartouche at the top centre bears the title CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BEAUVAIS ET DE L'OISE, flanked by ornamental scroll vignettes at each corner. The large denomination numeral 50 appears in circular frames at lower left and right, with the value in words CINQUANTE CENTIMES in bold letters across the centre, above the manuscript signatures of the Treasurer and President. |
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| Protection description | Bees |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-change notes during and after the First World War to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply worn out by wartime demand. The Beauvais chamber's issues came relatively late in that wave, by which point the practical need had already peaked. Imprimerie Chaix, a Paris house with deep roots in railway timetable and poster printing, handled numerous provincial chamber commissions during this period.
Leclerc's involvement as designer is documented for this series, though his contribution was modest given the constraints of small-denomination emergency paper.