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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Mont-de-Marsan 40
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Mont-de-Marsan |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | B. Arnaud, Villeurbanne, France (1898-1990) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note with a dense guilloche border enclosing an orange-tinted rectangular underprint formed by repeated text reading CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE MONT-DE-MARSAN. The central panel carries the issuer's title in cursive script above the legend ÉMISSION DE LA PAIX and the denomination CINQUANTE CENTIMES in large bold lettering. At the lower centre the arms of the Département des Landes are rendered as a small heraldic vignette, flanked by the series number and serial number, with manuscript signatures of the Trésorier and the Président placed on either side. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress reverse dominated by an arched cartouche bearing the numeral 50 above the word CENTIMES in large bold letters, set against an orange guilloche underprint with the repeated text CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE MONT-DE-MARSAN. A circular medallion at centre contains the redemption notice in capital lettering. The denomination numeral 50 appears twice in large oval frames at the left and right margins, and the whole composition is enclosed within an ornate geometric guilloche border with decorative corner squares. |
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Emergency fractional notes like this one were a direct consequence of the post-WWI coin shortage that paralyzed small commerce across provincial France well into the 1920s. Chambers of commerce across the country were authorized to fill the gap, and Mont-de-Marsan — the prefecture of Landes — issued its own series through that mechanism. B. Arnaud of Villeurbanne handled a substantial volume of these regional necessities notes for various French chambres de commerce, making the firm one of the more prolific printers of the genre.