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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de La Rochelle 17
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de La Rochelle |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
| Protection description | Bees |
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La Rochelle's Chamber of Commerce issued emergency fractional notes like this one to address the acute small-change shortage that plagued French commerce in the years immediately following the First World War. The Banque de France had effectively abandoned low-denomination coinage to wartime metal demands, and hundreds of local chambers across France filled the gap with their own paper. Devambez, a Paris firm with deep roots in high-quality printing and engraving, handled production for numerous such issues, with Laveau contributing the plate work here.
JP#66-07/08 covers two closely related printings distinguishable by minor typographic variations — a detail that catches out collectors who assume the series is uniform.