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50 Centimes - Chambres de Commerce de Bordeaux
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bordeaux |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BORDEAUX CINQUANTE CENTIMES le Trésorier. le Président. SÉRIE QUO NON HAC DUCE 1705 (Translation: Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce Fifty Centimes Treasurer. President. Series Is not to Follow 1705) |
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| Reverse lettering | .C.C.B C.C.B. 50c 50c EMISSION EN 1921 DE BONS REMBOURSABLES A TOUTE ÉPOQUE MAIS AVANT LE 31 Dec 1926. PAR LES CAISSES PUBLIQUES DE LA CIRCONSCRIPTION ET A LA BANQUE DE FRANCE A BORDEAUX LA CONTRE VALEUR DE CES BONS EST DÉPOSÉE AU TRÉSOR PUBLIC. F.M. ROGANEAU INV ET DEL WETTERWALD FRERES IMP |
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French chambers of commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes during and after the First World War to compensate for the chronic shortage of metallic coinage, which had been hoarded or melted. Bordeaux's chamber was among the most prolific regional issuers, running an extensive series well into the early 1920s as the coin shortage persisted far longer than anyone had anticipated.
Roganeau was a respected Bordeaux-born painter and decorative artist — his involvement in both design and engraving here is unusual for a regional emergency note, which typically went to commercial print shops without artistic pretension. Wetterwald Frères handled the actual production locally.