Long shot Banknote ID

Heya, not sure if you can help as this is a banknote not a coin but thought it would be worth a shot seen as I cant find it anywhere and had it for over a year, even after translating it and Googling it every word lol
(its the only note in my money collection i cant identify)




Top reads
Emprunt Garanti
par deliberations du 23 April 1915 des 70 communes de:

and bottom
pour entre valable, tout bon doit porter le timbre de la commission de controle

Again apologies if you only do coins, thought maybe someone has come across one somewhere and can help cos I have no idea lol

All the best

  Stocks and shares perhaps - as in it reads the second (deuxième or 2e) issue (emission) is looking for 2,000,000 Francs - and either this is a 0.10 share; or it is 0.10 dividend paid on a share. More so as the serial number is crude, which would not be like that on a banknote.

I agree with Zac.  I think is some kind of promissory note.  The title "Emprunt Garanti" translates to "Secured Loan".  That and I can't find it in my World Paper Money catalog.  No French paper was down into the Centimes scale that I can see, only Francs.

Found a few links that you might find useful, the last link has a lot of info regarding a 20 centimes note (pasted at the bottom, as it's an old ebay item):

http://www.catawiki.com/catalog/banknotes/series/noodgeld/3431645-france-un-franc-emprunt-garanti-1915
http://www.ebay.com/itm/France-1-Franc-1915-in-VF-CRISP-Banknote-EMPRUNT-GARANTI-/281225419126
http://www.delcampe.net/page/item/id,77296464,var,MONNAIE-BILLET-BON-COMMUNAL-EMPRUNT-GARANTI-70-COMMUNES-80-62-59-1-FRANC-71553-SOMME-PAS-DE-CALAIS-NORD,language,F.html
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/FRANCE-20-Centimes-Note-Emprunt-Garanti-APRIL-1915-Scarce-LOOK-/380847605986

"FRANCE -  OLD WORLD WAR ONE ERA BANKNOTE -  Emprunt Garanti - Guaranteed Loan Note, 20 Centimes 1915 Issue - Small size  note in  Circulated Condition.
RARE EMERGENCY ISSUE FRENCH NOTE FROM WW1.
Guaranteed Loan Note - 20 Centimes denomination - Uniface
Issued for use in 70 Communes.
Printed in  Blue with Watermark on white paper. There is a Black Hand Stamp on the face at the lower left.
Deliberation Du 23 Avril 1915
Series 1B. N°.  18716
2ième Emission - 2nd Issue - 5 Signatures On The Face.

Note is  nicely but simply designed in  Blue on White paper.
 
The note has two strong folds, much creasing and some surface dirt and an edge tear at the top left corner. See both scans .

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 buy 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."