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1 Franc
| Issuer | Syndicat d'Emission de Bons Communaux de la Région de Rimogne |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Value | 1 Franc |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset design within a single-rule rectangular border, with the issuer's name in bold letterpress at the top and the denomination 'UN FRANC' in large display type at centre. The series and serial number appear at upper left, with the numeral '1 FR.' at upper right. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower centre under the printed titles 'Le Président' and 'Le Délégué, Maire de Revin', with a circular official cachet of the Syndicat struck at lower right overlapping the denomination text. |
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| Reverse lettering | Bon garanti par les communes de Rimogne, Arreux, Blombay, Bourg-Fidèle, Châtelet, Chilly, Etalle, Gué-d'Hossus, Harcy, Laval, Marby, Montcornet, Murtin, Renwez, Rocroi, Sévigny, Sormonne, Taillette, Tremblois, Revin, Anchamps, Deville, Laifour, Les Mazures, Sécheval, — et remboursable par le Syndicat, à son siège social, à Rimogne, un an après la signature de la paix. Les Bons ne sont valables que revêtus du Cachet du Syndicat. CHARLEVILLE — IMPRIMERIE A. ANCIAUX |
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Rimogne is a small commune in the Ardennes, occupied by German forces from late August 1914. With the French banking system severed from the region, local authorities across occupied northern France improvised emergency small-change scrip through syndicats d'émission — cooperative bodies formed specifically to fill the void left by the disappearance of metallic coin and official banknotes. This note is one of those instruments.
The printer, Imprimerie A. Anciaux, was based in Charleville — itself under German occupation at the time of printing. That a French commercial press continued operating under occupation to produce local emergency currency is the quietly remarkable fact this note carries.