Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Dijon 21
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Dijon |
|---|---|
| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | 87 × 60 mm |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | 50 Centimes A PRÉSENTER AU REMBOURSEMENT AVANT LE 6 Mars 1921 SAUF DÉCISION PROROGEANT CE DÉLAI CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE · DIJON |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Watermarked paper stock used as a basic security measure against counterfeiting. |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Dijon's Chamber of Commerce, like dozens of others across France, was forced into emergency note issuance after the outbreak of war drained small-change coinage from circulation almost immediately. Hoarding, metal requisitions for the war effort, and the sudden velocity of wartime commerce combined to create a fractional currency vacuum that the Banque de France could not fill fast enough. Chambers of commerce stepped in locally, with official sanction, printing their own small-denomination bons de monnaie.
Gérin was a local Dijon printer — not a specialist security firm — which is why the watermark is the primary security feature rather than anything more sophisticated.