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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 | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 50 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BOULOGNE-SUR-MER CINQUANTE Cmes Remboursable par la Chambre de Commerce, la date initiale de la prescription trentenaire étant fixée au 1er janvier 1925. (Délibération du 5 mars 1920.) LE PRÉSIDENT LE TRÉSORIER N° 224898 50 50 IMPRIMERIES RÉUNIES - BOULOGNE-S-MER |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 50 0,50 CENTes 50 50 |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes during and after World War I to address a severe shortage of coin, which had been hoarded or melted. Boulogne-sur-Mer's chamber issued this 50 centimes note in 1920, well into the postwar period — the coin shortage persisted far longer than the armistice.
Printed locally by Imprimeries Réunies rather than one of the large Parisian security printers, the series relied on a watermark as its primary fraud deterrent. JP#31-26 places it within a well-documented run of Boulogne chamber issues, most of which circulated heavily in the fishing port's busy commercial economy before redemption series wound down in the mid-1920s.