50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce du Havre 76

The Havre Chamber of Commerce issued emergency fractional notes from 1914 onward to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coinage — hoarded and melted as the war dragged on. This 50 centimes piece belongs to a series that filled a genuine gap in daily commerce at one of France's busiest ports, a city handling war materiel and Allied supply chains throughout the conflict.

Oberthur in Rennes printed the bulk of French provincial emergency issues during this period, and their involvement here is largely a logistical fact rather than a distinction — they were simply the reliable contractor everyone used.