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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Libourne 33
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Libourne |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LIBOURNE IMP. WETTERWALD FRÈRES BORDEAUX |
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| Protection description | Bees |
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Libourne's Chamber of Commerce, like hundreds of provincial French bodies, stepped in to fill a genuine vacuum — the wartime hoarding of metal coinage had never fully resolved itself by 1920, and small denominations remained stubbornly absent from everyday commerce in the Gironde. These emergency fractional notes were a local fix for a national failure, issued under authorization ultimately traced to the law of 30 June 1916.
Wetterwald Frères in Bordeaux handled a considerable volume of similar necessity issues across the southwest, making regional attribution of the printing relatively straightforward for this series. The watermark is the sole security provision — modest, but consistent with the tier.