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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Besançon et du Doubs [25]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Besançon et du Doubs |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in red and black on a pale ground covered with a fine typographic underprint repeating the text "CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BESANÇON ET DU DOUBS" in light blue. The denomination "50 Centimes" is set in large red script lettering across the centre, flanked below by two manuscript signatures above the printed titles "Le Trésorier" and "Le Président". A circular blind-stamp of the Chambre de Commerce de Besançon, dated 12 Mai 1919, is positioned centrally between the signatures, with the series number and serial number at lower left and lower right respectively, all within a decorative red guilloche border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Chambers of Commerce emergency notes issued across France after World War One fill a chapter that mainstream monetary history tends to skip. With the Banque de France chronically short of small-denomination coinage — brass and copper had been consumed by the war effort — local chambers were authorised to plug the gap themselves. Besançon's chamber, serving the Doubs département in Franche-Comté, contracted B. Arnaud of Villeurbanne for the job, a Lyon-area printer active in this niche commercial work throughout the interwar period.
JP#25.19 is one of several varieties in this series distinguished by signature combinations.