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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce des Côtes du Nord [22]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce des Côtes du Nord, Saint-Brieuc |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress on cream-coloured paper with a repeated text underprint reading 'VILLE DE SAINT-BRIEUC ET CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE' across the entire field. A central vignette at the top bears a crowned heraldic cartouche flanked by laurel sprays and a spread-winged eagle, with ornamental ribbon ties at each upper corner. To the left, a circular seal of the Mairie de Saint-Brieuc encloses a seated allegorical figure of the Republic, and to the right a corresponding seal of the Chambre de Commerce des Côtes-du-Nord displays an anchor motif; both seals are ribbon-tied at top. The denomination '50 CENTIMES' is set in bold letterpress at centre, with a framed serial number cartouche at the foot flanked by series letters, and the printer's imprint 'Oberthur Rennes' at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE St BRIEUC CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DES CÔTES DU NORD 50 CENTIMES MAIRIE DE SAINT-BRIEUC Le Maire Le Président OBERTHUR RENNES (358217) |
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During the First World War, the withdrawal of coin from circulation — driven by hoarding and metal demands — forced hundreds of French regional chambers of commerce to issue their own small-denomination emergency notes. The Côtes-du-Nord chamber was one of them, and like most of its contemporaries, it turned to Oberthur in Rennes, the dominant provincial security printer of the period, which produced emergency fractional notes for chambers across Brittany and well beyond.
The JP reference string here is unusually long, reflecting the multiple series, date variants, and control letter combinations issued under this single type designation — a collector headache that the catalog number alone obscures.