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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 | 1919 |
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| Printer | Georges Freisz, Saint-Dié, France |
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| Obverse lettering | CE BILLET EST ÉCHANGEABLE CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE FRANCE (dans le cadre au centre :) CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE ST-DIÉ DÉLIBÉRATION DU 22 OCTOBRE 1918 ÉMISSION 1919 50 CENTIMES N° 122,771 Le Trésorier Le Président (signature) (signature) G. FREISZ SAINT-DIÉ |
| Reverse description | Printed in violet on cream paper, the reverse carries a central circular vignette with the arms of Saint-Dié — a red shield — within a round stamp inscribed CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE SAINT-DIÉ * VOSGES *. Flanking the central motif are small vignette panels reproducing higher-denomination notes of the same issue, while two oval medallions bearing a standing allegorical figure appear at left and right. The lower half of the field is occupied by a floral and foliate ornamental underprint surrounding the redemption notice in bold letterpress, and a decorative guilloche border frames the entire composition. |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes beginning in 1914, stepping in when the hoarding of coins — particularly bronze and nickel — stripped the country of everyday change. The Vosges region's Saint-Dié chamber was among dozens that took up this role, with the 1919 date placing this note at the tail end of that improvised local currency system, well after the armistice but before the national small-change crisis fully resolved.
Printed locally by Georges Freisz, a Saint-Dié printer, rather than one of the major Parisian security printers. That regional production shows in surviving examples, which occasionally exhibit uneven inking and minor misalignment in the border work — not errors as such, but the natural result of wartime and postwar printing under constrained conditions.