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1 Franc - Bon de monnaie de Croix et de Wasquehal [59]
| Issuer | Villes de Croix et de Wasquehal |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLES DE CROIX ET DE WASQUEHAL PREMIÈRE SÉRIE BON DE MONNAIE UN FRANC Garanti par Délibérations des Conseils Municipaux du 7 Novembre 1914 Approuvées par Mr le Préfet du Nord , le 10 Novembre 1914 Le Maire de CROIX N° 6161 Le Maire de WASQUEHAL RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE pour être valable , ce billet doit être frappé du cachet de l`une des deux villes |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue-green on plain paper, the reverse is dominated by a large central circular vignette containing the anti-counterfeiting legal warning text, with the coat of arms of Croix visible at upper left mirrored in ghost impression from the obverse. A circular official rubber cachет of the Ville de Wasquehal is applied in black ink at centre-right, validating the note as required by the obverse notice. The overall layout is unadorned, with the legal text serving as the principal design element against a lightly tinted guilloche underprint. |
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Croix and Wasquehal are adjacent industrial communes in the Roubaix-Tourcoing agglomeration, and when German forces swept through French Flanders in August–September 1914, municipal cash reserves evaporated almost immediately. Small-denomination bons de monnaie like this one were the pragmatic answer — issued jointly by two communes rather than one, which itself reflects how thoroughly the normal administrative machinery had broken down in those first chaotic weeks of occupation.
The Joint Pavilion reference JP1418 places this firmly within the well-documented Nord département emergency series, where hundreds of distinct issuers produced necessity currency between 1914 and 1918. Croix-Wasquehal joint issues are among the earlier examples of inter-communal cooperation in that corpus.