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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Cahors [46] cadre violet, fond rose
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Cahors |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie Pierre Dumont, Limoges, France |
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| Obverse description | Violet letterpress printed over a rose guilloche underprint, within a ruled rectangular frame. The issuer's title 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CAHORS' is set in a decorative cartouche at the top, flanked by foliate vignettes, while the large denomination '50 CENTIMES' dominates the central field with the serial number positioned above it and '0.50' repeated on both lateral margins. Two manuscript signatures appear below, under the respective labels 'LE PRÉSIDENT' and 'LE TRÉSORIER', with the redemption clause and the date '1ER JANVIER 1915' running along the lower border. |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CAHORS 50 CENTIMES Ce billet, garanti par dépôt d'égale somme à la Banque de France, est toujours échangeable aux guichets de sa succursale de Cahors, et devra, sous peine de prescription, y être présenté au remboursement dans un délai de cinq ans à dater de ce jour. IMP P DUMONT LIMOGES |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency notes of 1914–1918 were a direct consequence of the French public hoarding metal coinage the moment war was declared — small change simply vanished from circulation within weeks of mobilization. Cahors, the prefecture of the Lot, was among the regional chambers authorized to fill that gap with locally printed bons de nécessité. Imprimerie Pierre Dumont in Limoges handled production for several southern chambers simultaneously, which occasionally causes confusion when notes from different issuers share closely related typographic layouts.
The JP# spread across 35.9 and 35.12–13 reflects distinct date or text variants rather than design changes — the violet frame and rose ground remained consistent across the sub-types.