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10 Centimes - Société coopérative d'alimentation - Dortan [01]
| Issuer | Société coopérative d'alimentation (Dortan) |
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| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse field is entirely occupied by a three-line Latin legend in bold raised lettering reading SOCIETE / COOPERATIVE / D'ALIMENTATION across the centre, with DORTAN (AIN) arcing along the lower periphery. A small stylised floral or foliate ornament is positioned in the lower central field between the main legend and the place name. The design is purely typographic, devoid of any effigy or pictorial device, with no border or inner circle framing the inscription. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Dortan is a small industrial commune in the Ain department, historically dependent on plastics manufacturing. Cooperative store tokens of this type were issued by worker-run purchasing societies — common across French industrial towns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries — allowing members to exchange labor credit for goods without touching the national currency. The Société coopérative d'alimentation functioned as both grocer and mutual aid mechanism, and its tokens effectively circulated as a local scrip within a closed membership economy.