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| Uitgever | Caisse Patriotique de Lyon |
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| Jaar | 1793 |
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| Waarde | 25 Sous |
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| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | SIEGE DE LYON. Bon pour VINGT-CINQ Sous A rembourser en Assignats de 25 livres à 400 livres. XXV |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain paper reverse with typeset text, largely degraded due to age and wear. A small vignette of a wheeled cannon appears at the lower left, an emblem directly referencing the siege-era military context of this municipal emergency issue. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Caisse Patriotique de Lyon operated during one of the most violent episodes of the Revolution: Lyon had defied the National Convention and was besieged, then systematically punished after its fall in October 1793 — the city was briefly renamed "Commune-Affranchie" and its monuments ordered demolished. Local emergency issuers like this one were functioning in the months immediately before or during that catastrophe, filling a void left by the near-total collapse of commercial life under siege conditions.
Assignat denominations rarely descended to the sous level from national issuers, which is precisely why municipal caisse notes at this fractional value existed at all.