10 Centimes Saint Mandé

Saint-Mandé, a commune immediately east of Paris, issued local aluminum alimentary tokens during World War I when the French government's requisitioning of metals and disruption of normal commerce left municipalities scrambling to facilitate basic food transactions. These pieces were authorized by local food supply committees — the comités d'alimentation — created specifically to manage rationing and distribution at the municipal level when central supply chains collapsed under wartime pressure.

Aluminum was chosen precisely because it had negligible strategic value to military requisitioners.