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50 Centimes - Ville et Chambre de Commerce d'Abbeville [80]
| Issuer | Ville d'Abbeville et Chambre de Commerce de l'Arrondissement d'Abbeville |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 50. C | 50. C VILLE D'ABBEVILLE ET CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE L'ARRONDISSEMENT D'ABBEVILLE 0,50 CENTIMES N° 1,209,123 LE PRÉSIDENT UN ADJOINT 50. C | 50. C L.LECLERC FEC CHAIX - IMP |
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| Protection description | Watermark bees |
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Abbeville's Chamber of Commerce began issuing emergency small-change notes during the First World War, when metal coinage effectively vanished from French circulation. This 1920 date places the note in the tail end of that crisis period — most French chambers had wound down their emergency issues by 1922, and many of these late printings saw limited actual use before being demonetized.
Imprimerie Chaix was a serious Paris commercial printer with a long history in transport timetables and illustrated work; their involvement in provincial chambre de commerce issues was common but never perfunctory.