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Cinquante Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Nevers [58]
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Nevers |
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| Year | 1915-1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in brown on a blue underprint, without watermark. The centre carries the issuer's title and denomination in bold lettering, flanked by decorative guilloche elements. Two manuscript signature lines appear below, designated 'Le Trésorier' and 'Le Président', with the series letter (A101 to Z125) printed in brown and the serial number in black; the printer's imprint 'IMP. B. ARNAUD — LYON — PARIS' appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Chambre de Commerce de Nevers Délibération du 12 Novembre 1915 Cinquante Centimes Le Trésorier Le Président Série IMP. B. Arnaud - Lyon - Paris |
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Among the hundreds of emergency issues that flooded France after the coin shortage of 1914–1915, the Nevers chamber series is notable for being entirely the work of a single Lyon printing house — Imprimerie B. Arnaud — which both designed and produced the notes. This vertical integration was not unusual for smaller provincial chambers, which lacked the connections or budget to commission separately from a specialized security printer.
The Nièvre department was largely agricultural and industrially modest; the Nevers chamber's notes circulated to cover the near-total disappearance of bronze and silver from daily trade, a vacuum that Paris was too slow to fill.