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50 centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Libourne [33]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Libourne |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LIBOURNE DÉLIBÉRATION DU 20 JUIN 1918 50 Centes. EMMISSION EN 1918 DE BONS REMBOURSABLES A TOUS MOMENTS MAIS AVANT LE 31 DÉCEMBRE 1923, A LA BANQUE DE FRANCE DE LIBOURNE Le Trésorier Le Président 39,497 |
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| Reverse lettering | 50c. CINQUIÈME SÉRIE CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LIBOURNE IMP. WETTERWALD FRÈRES BORDEAUX |
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French chambres de commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes from 1914 onward as centimes and franc coinage vanished from circulation — hoarded by the public and consumed by wartime metal demands. By 1918, dozens of regional chambers had their own series in circulation, Libourne among them. Wetterwald Frères, a Bordeaux printer active across several Gironde departmental issues, handled a number of these contracts, which accounts for the family resemblance between several southwestern French emergency notes of the period.
JP#72.23 places this within a documented series. The watermarked paper was a minimal but deliberate security measure — adequate for a note no one expected to circulate long.