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50 Centimes - Chambres de Commerce Macon (71), Bourg (01)
| Issuer | Chambres de Commerce de Mâcon et de Bourg-en-Bresse |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 58 mm |
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| Reverse description | Pink and brown letterpress note with the same repeated-text underprint as the obverse. A richly decorative border of fruits, grapes, and foliage frames the central panel. At the top, a caduceus vignette with spread wings crowns the composition. Four corner medallions bear the numeral '50'. The large denomination '50 CENTIMES' is printed in bold at centre, above two lines of legal text, with a cockerel vignette at the lower centre among fruiting branches. |
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| Protection description | Repeated-text watermark pattern reading 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE MACON CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BOURG' visible across the note field. |
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Joint issues between two regional Chambers of Commerce were relatively uncommon in the French emergency note system of the 1914–1926 period, and this collaboration between Mâcon and Bourg-en-Bresse reflects a practical administrative arrangement between neighboring commercial districts in the Saône-et-Loire and Ain departments. X. Perroux & Fils was a local Mâcon printing house — not a specialist security printer — which accounts for the modest production values typical of provincial chambre issues.
The JP#78-13 reference places this firmly within the Mâcon series, though the dual-authority attribution occasionally causes cataloging confusion.