Charbon Caudry ND

Reverse

Edge bordered of 57 pearls. At the bottom right, instead of the pearls, the name THEVENON.
In the center the word COAL

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CHARBON
THEVENON

Edge

Smooth

The cooperative society 'Les Coopérateurs d'Escaut et Sambre', retail trade and agricultural production, was created in 1919 in Cambrai by merging several cooperative societies. In 1930, it became the Union of Cooperators of Escaut and Sambre. It had 6,000 members in 1920, 45,000 in 1939, and 65,000 in 1970. Between 1920 and 1976, it absorbed about forty different cooperatives.
Absorption in 1930 of the Union maubeugeoise, of La ruche fourmisienne, of L'abeille wignehisienne and of La Cheminote de Maubeuge
Absorption around 1930 of the Union of the workers of Inchy-Beaumont
Absorption in 1931 of La ruche de Felleries, of L'égalité de Beauvois and of L'émancipatrice d'Aulnoye
Absorption in 1949 of the Alliance ouvrière of Masnières
Absorption in 1951 of La communale of Saint-Michel
Absorption in 1954 of the Union des familles de Frerrière-la-Grande
Absorption in 1976 of the Union of the cooperators of the basins of Selle and Sambre
Absorbed by the Union des Coopérateurs de Sin-Le-Noble et Denain in 1984, becomes the Coopérative régionale du Nord
Judicial liquidation in 1985 and final closure in 1988.