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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Lure [70]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Lure |
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| Year | 1915-1921 |
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| Printer | B. Arnaud, Villeurbanne, France (1898-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Red and black letterpress on white paper with a fine guilloche underprint bearing the repeated text 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE LURE' across the field. A decorative red border of interlaced geometric and floral motifs frames the note, with circular rosette corner pieces, and the denomination 'Cinquante Centimes' rendered in large red script lettering across the centre, flanked above by the issuer's name and emission details. Below, two manuscript signature lines appear above a central oval vignette of a seated allegorical figure representing Commerce, encircled by the chamber's name and the departmental designation 'Lure (Hte Saône)'. |
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| Reverse description | Red and blue-grey letterpress on white paper with a repeated guilloche underprint, enclosed within the same geometric and floral red border as the obverse, with square denomination cartouches at each corner. Two large numerals '50' in blue-grey flank a central oval text panel bearing the redemption notice, with 'CENTIMES' inscribed below each numeral. The heading '7e Emission' appears in bold black letters at the top of the note, with 'SEPTIÈME EMISSION' repeated in bold black letters at the foot. |
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Lure is a small industrial town in Haute-Saône, and like dozens of French provincial chambers of commerce during the First World War, it was forced into note issuance when the hoarding of metal coinage created acute small-change shortages across the country. The Banque de France had no practical mechanism to supply token denominations quickly enough, so local chambers filled the gap under a loosely coordinated national emergency framework that began in earnest in 1914–1915.
B. Arnaud of Villeurbanne handled enormous volumes of this emergency fiduciary material for chambers throughout the Rhône-Alpes and Franche-Comté regions. The sheer number of JP reference variants listed here — spanning at least fifteen distinct catalogue entries — reflects successive emissions, reissues, and likely dating or overprint differences rather than any fundamental redesign.