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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Boulogne-sur-Mer [62] sans série
| 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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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with a repeated guilloche underprint of the text "CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BOULOGNE-SUR-MER" across the entire field. A decorative typographic border frames the note, with the issuer's title in bold letterpress at the top flanking a central oval vignette of a robed allegorical figure with an anchor, topped by a radiant eye within a triangle. Two circular cartouches at left and right carry authorization and anti-counterfeiting legends respectively, while the large denomination numeral "0.50" is printed in red at centre, above the text "CINQUANTE CENTIMES". Signature lines for the Treasurer and the President of the Chamber of Commerce appear below, with the serial number at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with faint show-through of the obverse design visible in mirror image. The denomination numeral "0.50" is printed in large red outline figures at centre, with the serial number repeated in black at lower right. |
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When the outbreak of war in August 1914 caused an immediate hoarding crisis across France, small change vanished from circulation almost overnight. Chambers of commerce nationwide were authorized by the government to fill the gap with locally issued emergency paper — and Boulogne's chamber acted quickly, commissioning this note from a local printer rather than waiting on Paris. The Société Typo-Litho solution was purely pragmatic: fast, local, and adequate.
The JP#31.1 à 3 reference covers multiple variants within this type, distinguished by minor typographic differences — a detail that still trips up collectors who assume the series is uniform.