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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer [62] avec valeur dans les coins inférieurs, 14/8/1914
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Single-sided emergency note printed in red on cream paper, with a rectangular border of dotted guilloche ornament. A central vignette at the top depicts a seated allegorical figure flanked by the issuer's name in bold letterpress. Two text blocks flank the large denomination legend 'CINQUANTE CENTIMES' at centre, the left noting the authorisation by the Minister of Commerce dated 20 August 1914, and the right warning against fraudulent imitation. The value '0,50' appears in large red numerals at the lower left and lower right corners, with the series designation 'C 1' at centre bottom, above the printed signature lines for the Treasurer and the President of the Chamber of Commerce. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BOULOGNE-SUR-MER Délibération de la Chambre du 14 Août 1914 CINQUANTE CENTIMES Le Trésorier Le Président de la Chambre de Commerce 0,50 C1 0,50 |
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Boulogne-sur-Mer's Chambre de Commerce issued this note on 14 August 1914 — ten days after France's general mobilization. The commercial chambers across northern France scrambled to produce emergency fractional currency that summer because the outbreak of war triggered an immediate hoarding of coins and a near-total freeze on small-denomination specie in circulation. These local issues filled a genuine void.
The JP#31.14 designation places this within a well-documented but large series of Boulogne issues, several of which share plate elements distinguished only by corner value placement — the arrangement referenced in this note's catalog name being the distinguishing variant.