Catalog
1 Franc Saint-Hubert
| Issuer | Ville de Saint-Hubert (Province de Luxembourg, Belgium) |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE ST-HUBERT 1 FR. État de Siège (ligne) Exécution de la Loi du 4 Août 1914, sur la rémunération pour la période de mobilisation. (ligne) BON DE UN FRANC. (ligne) Dont le remboursement est garanti par la VILLE DE SAINT-HUBERT dans l'année qui suivra la fin des hostilités. Délivré en suite d'une décision du Conseil Communal en date du 19 Août 1914 PAR LE CONSEIL L'Échevin, Le Secrétaire, Le Bourgmestre, (signature) (signature) (signature) Le Receveur, (signature) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is divided into three vertical panels by ruled borders. The left and right panels carry printed text in small letterpress type setting out the personal guarantee of council members and a warning to merchants refusing the notes. The central panel bears the circular municipal cachet of Saint-Hubert. The printer's imprint appears below the three-panel layout. |
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Belgian municipal emergency notes of 1914 are common enough as a category, but most were printed by established commercial firms in larger cities. This one was printed entirely locally — Alcide Félix ran a small print shop in Saint-Hubert itself, which was deep in the Ardennes and effectively cut off from normal banking channels within weeks of the German invasion in August 1914.
The result is crude by the standards of contemporary Belgian bons de nécessité, with none of the engraved security features used by town administrations that had advance warning or better resources. Provincial isolation made the Félix shop the only practical option.