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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes 06
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Nice et des Alpes-Maritimes |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE NICE et des Alpes-Maritimes 50 CENTIMES Délibération ministérielle du 25 avril 1917 Délibération du 18 avril 1917 Le Président Le Trésorier 017297 Série 16 Marius SIMON Ec. N. A. D. NICE |
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| Protection description | Watermark incorporated into the paper stock. |
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French Chambers of Commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes from 1914 onward as metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight — hoarded by the public and consumed by wartime industrial demand. The Nice chamber's series, printed locally by Robaudy in Cannes rather than by one of the larger Parisian houses, reflects how decentralized this emergency emission system became.
Marius Simon's involvement gives the note some regional design identity. Robaudy was a well-regarded Cannes printer with deep roots in commercial lithography on the Côte d'Azur.