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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Châlon-sur-Saône, Autun et Louhans 71
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Chalon-sur-Saône, Autun et Louhans |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Reverse description | Purple and orange bicolour letterpress on yellow-buff paper. The denomination 'CINQUANTE CENTIMES' is printed in large orange letters diagonally across the centre, overlying a repeated text underprint. Four corner cartouches each bear the value '0.50'. A central framed text panel states the redemption conditions in small letterpress type, with ornamental leaf motifs above and below the panel. The outer border repeats the guilloche pattern found on the obverse. |
| Reverse lettering | CINQUANTE CENTIMES CES BONS ÉCHANGEABLES CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE FRANCE DEVRONT ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉS AU REMBOURSEMENT, AVANT LE 8 DÉCEMBRE 1923 SAUF DÉCISION PROROGEANT CE DÉLAI |
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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 fractional currency — coins had been hoarded and metal diverted to the war effort. This regional chamber, covering three separate arrondissements in Saône-et-Loire, continued issuing well into the early 1920s as the coin shortage lingered longer than anticipated. B. Arnaud, the Villeurbanne-based printer responsible for this series, produced a large volume of provincial emergency currency across the Rhône-Alpes region during this period.