FRANCE-ALGERIA - UNION Des COMMERÇANTS 'ORLÉANSVILLE - 0f.25 1915 UNC

Description: Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Catalogue Reference:- Pirot#OrleansvilleA -12. The note is printed in Black on Blue coloured cardboard. This is a scarce carton note. Issued by Union des Commercants d'Orleansville sometime in 1914 or 1915. Size 50 x 37 x1mm. The note was issued with rounded corners, as part of the design.On the face the design is quite simple, all contained in a picture frame style border. At the top is an arched design with UNION DES COMMERCANTS in arched letters. Below this is the denomination printed large as '0.f 25'. below is d'ORLEANSVILLE. The reverse has a simialr border at the centre are two circles with 'UNION DES COMMERCANTS' Printed within the circles, the word Orleansville' is printed in the middle of the inner circle. A crescent is at the top left and lower right. The note is signed diagonally across the note on the reverse. There is no Serie or Serial Number on the note/token. This old emergency Cardboard banknote/token has seen no circulation, it is just as issued, it is undamaged with no creases or pinholes. It just has some light age related fading to the card it is printed on, around the edges - therefore it grades Uncirculated and is a rare and valuable example. It is one of the must have types of French emergency notes for the serious collector. In this condition the note catalogues at €70.Low Buy it Now price of just £52.95 with a Make Offer option. See my other banknotes in my eBay shop where most are available, immediately at Buy it Now prices! Some with a Make Offer option. HISTORICAL NOTES:- Billets de Nécessite and other Emergency notes were issued in Europe - predominantly in France, during and after World War One from about 1914 and up to the early 1920's, they were used in towns and regions in place of coins which during wartime became scarce as the metal was needed for industry, their use by and large became redundant by the mid 1920's as the economies began to recover following the privations of Wartime. On most of them there was an issue date with details of the date and time they could be re exchanged for regular currency issued by the Banque de France or other Central Bank. There are hundreds of different types, they were issued mainly in denominations of 50c, 1 Franc and 2 Francs. They are interesting historic documents. The same issues were often printed on any paper that was to hand, sometimes of poor quality, even lined paper from School exercise books, tissue paper, tracing paper and cardboard were used on occasion. PINHOLES:- Most French notes of the period inevitably had pinholes because of the quirky way that shops used to deal with banknotes, when a customer paid for an item with notes, a receipt was always given and a copy kept by the retailer to which he stapled or pinned the banknote. The practise had generally died out in France by the 1980's, but it still goes on in some shops in rural areas to this day!! I ALWAYS COMBINE POSTAGE COSTS ON MULTIPLE WINS _ PLEASE DO NOT PAY FOR ITEMS UNTIL YOU RECEIVE MY COMBINED POSTAGE INVOICE IF YOU ARE BIDDING ON MORE THAN ONE ITEM! IMPORTANT - All my items are sent to the UK from my current location in Italy by Certificated Airmail for safety reasons, and INTERNATIONAL BUYERS please note that any item or group of items which totals more than £30 will have to be sent by insured delivery for the safety and security of your item - there can be I am afraid no exceptions to this. 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PLEASE NOTE ALL ITEMS ARE NOW MAILED FROM MY CURRENT LOCATION IN ITALY, posted the same day that payment is received or the next working day after payment, if made at the weekend. When I can get back, I may post from the UK again. Therefore delivery may take as long as 2 weeks or more, this is not my fault, merely the CURRENT problems being experienced within the International Postal System! _______________________________________________________________________________________

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Location: Maiolo

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