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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Dijon 21
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Dijon |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE DIJON DÉLIBÉRATION DU 1er DÉCEMBRE 1919 CINQUANTE CENTIMES Le Trésorier Le Président ÉMISSION GARANTIE PAR LE DÉPÔT DE LA CONTRE-VALEUR AU TRÉSOR 4e Série N° 362,556 IMP.G.GERIN DIJON |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 Centimes CE BILLET DEVRA ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉ AU REMBOURSEMENT AUX CAISSES PUBLIQUES AVANT LE 1er Déc.bre 1924 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE . DIJON. |
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French chambres de commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes during and after the First World War to address a severe shortage of fractional coinage — silver and copper had been hoarded or melted, and the national treasury could not meet demand. The Dijon chamber's issues are among hundreds of such local series produced across France between roughly 1914 and the early 1920s, when the emergency authorization was finally wound down and surviving notes called in.
Gérin was the obvious local choice — a Dijon printer working on familiar ground. The watermark is a modest security measure for a note of this denomination, but not unusual for the series.