Catalog
1 Franc Neder-Eename
| Issuer | Gemeente Neder-Eename (City of Neder-Eename, Province of East Flanders, Belgium) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Gemeente NEDER-EENAME 1914 1 Fr. Fr. 1 GOED VOOR EEN FRANK betaalbaar in gangbare munt in België, ter gemeentekas van Neder-Eename, binnen de drij maanden volgende op het vredeverdrag tusschen België en Duitschland. De Burgemeester De Secretaris De Schepen AUDENAERDE, DRUKKERIJ VANDE VELDE & DE MEESTER (Translation: Commune de Neder-Eename. Bon pour un franc payable en monnaie courante en Belgique, à la trésorerie municipale de Neder-Eename, dans les trois mois suivant le traité de paix entre la Belgique et l'Allemagne. Le Bourgmestre, Le Secrétaire, L'Échevin.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain cream-coloured paper surface with no text, vignette, or decorative elements; show-through of the obverse letterpress impression is faintly visible. |
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Neder-Eename is a village of a few hundred souls on the Scheldt, administratively absorbed into Oudenaarde long before this note existed in any meaningful sense. That a municipality this small was issuing its own paper franc in 1914 reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage in Belgium during the opening weeks of German occupation — hoarding was immediate and universal, and hundreds of Belgian communes, however minor, printed emergency scrip to keep local commerce from seizing up entirely.
Drukkerij Vande Velde & De Meester was a local Oudenaarde printer with no particular specialty in security printing, which is exactly what you'd expect from a village emergency issue produced under duress.