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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Bordeaux 33
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bordeaux |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Brown on pink underprint. The entire field is covered by a repeated letterpress guilloche underprint reading CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BORDEAUX. A large central cartouche with ornate scalloped border carries the numeral 50 in bold red letterpress above CENTIMES. Below the cartouche, five lines of text state the redemption terms of the emission. The border is formed by a continuous brown geometric and foliate ornamental frame with acanthus corner pieces. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTIMES EMISSION EN 1917 DE BONS REMBOURSABLES À TOUTE ÉPOQUE EN BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE FRANCE À LA SUCCURSALE DE BORDEAUX |
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French Chambers of Commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes from 1914 onward precisely because the war had driven metallic coinage out of circulation almost entirely — hoarding and industrial demand for copper and nickel left the public with almost no fractional currency. Bordeaux's Chamber was among the earliest and most prolific of these issuers, producing notes through multiple series across the war years.
B. Arnaud, based in Villeurbanne on the outskirts of Lyon, handled a significant share of this provincial emergency paper. The JP#30 reference covers at least three distinct varieties for this denomination, differentiated typically by minor typographic or watermark variations rather than substantive redesign.