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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce de la Corrèze [19]

Issuer Chambre de Commerce de la Corrèze
Year 1915
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In circulation to 25 Mars 1920
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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.

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