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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Corbeil [91]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Corbeil |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CORBEIL Commune aux Arrondissements de Corbeil & d'Etampes DÉLIBÉRATION DU 16 FÉVRIER 1920 CINQUANTE CENTIMES Le Trésorier Le Président SÉRIE 6 011,307 P. SOUDÉE INV. IMP. B. ARNAUD LYON PARIS |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in blue, the reverse presents a panoramic rural and industrial composition: at upper right, an oval vignette framed by laurel branches shows a riverside industrial complex with smoking chimneys and moored barges; to the upper left, a medieval ruined tower rises from a wooded hillside; in the foreground, a farmer operates a mechanical tractor across a ploughed field. The denomination '50 CENTIMES' appears in a large circular panel at lower left, and a bordered text panel at lower right contains the redemption notice. |
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Corbeil's Chamber of Commerce issued emergency fractional notes like this one to plug the chronic small-change shortage that dragged on well past the Armistice — France's coin shortage, driven by wartime metal requisitions and hoarding, forced hundreds of provincial chambers to become de facto local currency authorities between 1914 and the early 1920s. B. Arnaud of Villeurbanne handled an enormous volume of this work, printing for chambers across the southeast and beyond.
The JP#50.1 à 2 reference covers two signature varieties. Worth distinguishing at purchase.