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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce de la Corrèze [19]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de la Corrèze |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie Pierre Dumont, Limoges, France |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red on plain paper, the reverse carries a decorative border with guilloche elements and circular denomination medallions bearing '50 CENTIMES' in the upper left and right corners. The central text field contains the redemption clause in French, specifying exchangeability at the Banque de France branches of Tulle and Brive with a redemption deadline of 25 March 1920. At the lower centre, a circular vignette presents the arms of the Corrèze department surmounted by a mural crown and flanked by oak and laurel sprays, with the printer's imprint at the lower right. |
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| Protection description | Watermark bees |
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Issued by the Corrèze Chamber of Commerce out of Tulle, this note belongs to the wave of emergency small-denomination paper that flooded provincial France after the August 1914 mobilization drained coin from everyday commerce almost overnight. The Banque de France had no mechanism to replace fractional silver and bronze at that scale, so chambers of commerce across the country stepped in and printed their own. Corrèze was among the earlier ones to act.
Pierre Dumont's Limoges press handled several regional emergency issues simultaneously, which occasionally produces minor typographic inconsistencies across JP#51.9 through 51.15 — worth checking if attribution within the sub-series matters to you.