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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Bergerac 24
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bergerac |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Bees |
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| Comments |
French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes from 1914 onward as coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or absorbed by wartime metal demands. By 1918, when this piece was printed, such notes had shifted from stopgap to infrastructure, with local printers handling the work rather than the grandes maisons of Paris. Ronteix in Périgueux was a regional lithographic house, and the quality of chamber issues from this part of the Dordogne reflects that provenance: competent but modest.
The watermark is worth noting — relatively unusual for a 50-centime emergency note at this scale of production.