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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Sens 89
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Sens |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#118-10/11 |
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| Reverse description | Pink and brown letterpress reverse centred on the municipal coat of arms of Sens within a circular frame, flanked symmetrically by two caduceus vignettes entwined with grapevine and wheat ear sprays. The issuer title 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE SENS (YONNE)' curves around the upper border, and four circular corner medallions repeat the '50c' denomination. A text panel below the arms states the redemption conditions, and a repeated watermark-style underprint of the chamber's name fills the oval field. The printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Protection description | Watermark consisting of a repeated text pattern of the chamber's name 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE SENS' across the note's paper. |
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The Chambre de Commerce de Sens was one of dozens of French provincial chambers authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes following the acute coin shortage that developed during the First World War and persisted well into the early 1920s. The franc's silver and bronze coins had been hoarded or melted almost immediately after 1914, and the national government's response — small-format Bons de la Chambre de Commerce — fell to local printers to produce. Imprimerie Nouvelle François E. in Troyes handled this series, a relatively modest regional shop serving the Yonne and Aube departments.
JP#118-10 and JP#118-11 designate two distinct signature varieties within the same emission.