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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de St-Dié 88
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Saint-Dié |
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| Year | 1915-1918 |
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| Size | 95 × 67 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE SAINT-DIÉ VOSGES 50 Centimes CE BILLET DEVRA ÊTRE PRÉSENTÉ AU REMBOURSEMENT AVANT LE 9 OCTOBRE 1920 SAUF DÉCISION PROROGEANT CE DÉLAI LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ 1905 |
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| Protection description | Repeated text watermark incorporated into the paper stock. |
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Saint-Dié, in the Vosges, sat uncomfortably close to the front lines throughout the war, and the town had already been partially burned by German troops in September 1914. That the Chambre de Commerce managed to organize and print its own emergency fractional currency in these conditions — using a local printer, Georges Freisz — says something about the administrative determination to maintain everyday commerce when Banque de France small change had effectively vanished from circulation.
The JP# reference covers multiple typographic variants across the series, distinguished primarily by date and serial number positioning. Freisz was a local printing house, not a security printer, which accounts for the relatively simple watermark as the sole security feature.