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50 Centimes - Chambres de Commerce de Quimper et de Brest 29
| Issuer | Chambres de Commerce de Quimper et de Brest |
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| Year | 1915-1922 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | The face is enclosed within a decorative plant-motif border, with the heraldic shields of Quimper and Brest flanking a central laurel wreath. The issuing authority's name and denomination are displayed in letterpress, with the signatures of the presidents of both Chambers of Commerce and the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Bons émis sous la responsabilité et la garantie solidaires des deux Chambres de Commerce de Brest et de Quimper et remboursables en billets de la Banque de France par dix ou multiples de dix. Ces bons n'auront cours que dans les Circonscriptions des Chambres de Commerce de Quimper et de Brest. |
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When the Banque de France withdrew small-denomination coins from circulation during World War One — silver hoarded, bronze requisitioned for munitions — local chambers of commerce across France stepped in with paper emergency issues. The Quimper and Brest chambers pooled their authority under a joint issue, an administrative arrangement that was practical rather than common. Oberthur in Rennes, the dominant French provincial security printer of the period, handled the work. The series ran across multiple dated variants through 1922, well past the Armistice, because the coin shortage outlasted the war itself by several years.