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50 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce de Dunkerque 59
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Dunkerque |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE 50 50 CENTIMES CENTIMES DUNKERQUE |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
French Chambers of Commerce were authorized to issue emergency small-denomination notes during the First World War to address an acute shortage of coin — silver and copper had vanished from circulation almost overnight in August 1914. Dunkerque's chamber produced this 50 centimes note as a direct response, with Imprimerie Chaix in Paris handling the printing work. Chaix was primarily known as a poster and timetable printer, not a security press, which tells you something about how improvised this whole system was.
The JP# reference covering four catalog variants suggests multiple emission dates or serial ranges across the series lifetime.