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1 Franc - Grugies 02
| Issuer | Commune de Grugies |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light ground with a single-rule border frame. The commune name 'Grugies' is overprinted in large violet type at the top centre, above the letterpress text 'BON DES RÉGIONS DE SAINT-QUENTIN & DE GUISE' and the denomination 'UN FRANC' in bold. A large circular violet commune stamp is applied at centre-left, partially overlapping the text, and the note carries handwritten signatures of the President and two members of the Commission below a ruled panel bearing the issue date and serial number. The printer's imprint appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse is covered in small letterpress text within a single-rule border, listing the communes of the arrondissements of Saint-Quentin, Vervins, and Cambrai that participated in the regional bond scheme. Below the geographical listing, the heading 'COMMISSION RÉGIONALE DE CONTROLE' introduces a full roster of the commission members, identified by name and civic function. |
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Grugies is a village of a few hundred people on the Somme canal, administratively absorbed into Saint-Quentin's orbit well before the war. By 1916 the German occupation of the Aisne département had severed normal monetary supply lines, forcing even minor communes to print their own emergency fractional notes. That the printer — the Guetteur de l'Aisne's print shop — was itself operating under occupation conditions in Saint-Quentin adds a particular tension to this note's existence.
The watermark is unusual for material of this scale and urgency; most commune-level emergency issues from occupied northern France dispensed with security features entirely.