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50 Centimes - Colmar
| Issuer | Ville de Colmar (Municipality of Colmar) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Reference(s) | JP#130- 01/02/05 |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE COLMAR 50 CENTIMES EMISSION DU 15 DEC.1918 LA COMMISSION MUNICIPALE LE RECECEVEUR MUNICIP. LE V-PRESIDENT DE LA COMMISSION MUNICIP. SERIE C ALBERT JESS COLMAR |
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| Reverse lettering | LA CONTRE-VALEUR DE CES BONS, CRÉÉS EN VERTU DE LA DÉCISION DE M. LE CONSEILLER D'ÉTAT, COMMISSAIRE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE A COLMAR, EN DATE DU 14 DÉCEMBRE 1918, EST DÉPOSÉE AU TRÉSOR. LEUR REMBOURSEMENT A LIEU A LA CAISSE MUNICIPALE DE LA VILLE DE COLMAR , AVANT LE 31 DÉCEMBRE 1920 , SAUF DÉCISION PROROGEANT CE DÉLAI . |
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Colmar was under German administration as part of Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen from 1871 until the Armistice of November 1918, which means this note was issued during or immediately after the transfer of Alsace back to France — a moment of profound administrative confusion when neither German marks nor French francs were reliably available in sufficient quantity. Municipal fractional notes like this one filled a practical gap that neither Frankfurt nor Paris was prepared to address quickly.
Albert Jess was a local Colmar printer, not a specialist banknote producer, and the workmanship reflects that. The JP#130 series runs to at least five reference numbers, suggesting the municipality issued multiple variants to meet ongoing demand well into the reintegration period.