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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer 62
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Size | 120 × 80 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse, nearly unadorned, with the denomination repeated in large red outline numerals 0.50 at centre, printed in mirror image relative to the obverse. The serial number and series designation are visible in offset show-through from the obverse printing at the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | 0.50 |
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Boulogne-sur-Mer's Chamber of Commerce began issuing emergency fractional notes in 1914 almost immediately after mobilization disrupted normal coin circulation — a problem that hit Channel port towns especially hard, where commercial activity continued despite the near-total disappearance of small change from daily trade. These chambres de commerce issues were technically illegal tender outside their issuing district, yet they circulated widely because there was simply nothing else to hand.
The JP#31-11 reference places this within the Jérôme Picard catalogue of French necessity coinage and notaphily — the standard authority for these wartime provincial emissions.