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5 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Montluçon - Gannat 03
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Montluçon - Gannat |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE BON de 5 Centimes DE MONTLUÇON - GANNAT Le Vice-Président Le Trésorier HERBIN & BOUCHÉ _ MONTLUCON _ |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in black on yellow-ochre paper with a rectangular outer frame enclosing an oval cartouche that dominates the design. Within the oval, the redemption text is arranged in two lines above a circular seal of the Chambre de Commerce de Montluçon-Gannat, which bears a heraldic castle vignette and the full institutional name around its circumference. A circular cancellation stamp of the Chambre de Commerce is visible at the left side of the oval. |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency note issues of World War One were authorized by the French government from 1914 onward as small-denomination coinage disappeared almost overnight — hoarded by civilians and consumed by the war economy simultaneously. The Montluçon-Gannat chamber covered the Allier department, an industrial zone centered on metalworking and mining, where workers needed exact change that simply no longer existed in metal form.
Herbin & Bouché were a local Montluçon printer, not a specialist security firm, which shows in the modest production values typical of provincial emergency issues. The watermark was the primary defense against counterfeiting — adequate for small-town commerce, nothing more.