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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Dieppe 76
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Dieppe |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE DIEPPE CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE DIEPPE 0,50 CENTIMES Émission approuvée par l'Administration Supérieure Émission faite sous la garantie de la Chambre de Commerce. Le Secrétaire Trésorier Le Président N° 067,645 IMP. RICHARD, PARIS |
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| Reverse lettering | La Banque de France est chargée de la mise en circulation et du remboursement de ces coupures. La Banque de France n'échangera pas pour une somme inférieure à VINGT FRANCS. La Chambre de Commerce de Dieppe se réserve de faire fixer par un arrêté le délai de remboursement de ces coupures. |
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Dieppe's Chamber of Commerce issued small-denomination emergency notes during the First World War when bronze and nickel coinage effectively vanished from French circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absorbed by wartime demand. Local commercial chambers across France were authorized to fill the gap, and hundreds of them did. Dieppe was among the earlier issuers to formalize the arrangement through a Paris printer rather than relying on whatever local press was available.
Imprimerie Richard handled a number of these provincial emergency issues. The watermarked paper was a modest anti-counterfeiting measure in a period when the stakes of forgery were relatively low — these notes circulated hyperlocally and were never intended to travel far.