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1 Franc - Société des Bons d'Émission d'Avesnes and Solesmes 59
| Issuer | Société des Bons d'Émission des Communes adhérentes de l'Arrondissement d'Avesnes et de la Région de Solesmes |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Reference(s) | JP1418#59- 207 |
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| Obverse lettering | 3ème EMISSION SOCIETE DES BONS D'EMISSION des Communes adhérentes de l'Arrondissement d'AVESNES et de la Région de SOLESMES Pour les Maires des Communes adhérentes Date de la délibération de l'émission : 30 juillet 1916 BON pour UN FRANC Série 5 60807 Ce bon n'est valable que s'il est revêtu du cachet de la Société d'émission d'Avesnes et du cachet de la Mairie de la commune émetteuse La loi punit le contrefacteur |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in two columns of small letterpress text listing the numerous communes of the Arrondissement d'Avesnes and the Région de Solesmes where the bon is accepted, with a central typeset repeat of BON pour UN FRANC within a rectangular frame. A large circular mairie cachet is struck in blue ink at left. |
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Avesnes-sur-Helpe and the surrounding Nord département were under German military occupation for virtually the entire war, cut off from the French banking system. The Société des Bons d'Émission was one of dozens of emergency municipal credit associations that formed across occupied northern France to prevent complete economic paralysis — without them, there was simply no circulating money. This particular grouping was unusually broad in scope, pooling the adhesion of multiple communes across both the arrondissement of Avesnes and the Solesmes region, which gave the notes a wider acceptance zone than most local emergency issues.
The watermarked paper was a deliberate anti-counterfeiting measure, notable given the logistical difficulty of sourcing security stock under occupation.