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1 Franc Sucrerie d'Anvaing
| Issuer | Sucrerie d'Anvaing |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed bon de guerre in blue ink, with the denomination and issuer title centered within a rectangular frame bordered by a fruit-and-foliage vignette on the horizontal edges and geometric guilloche panels on the vertical edges. The central text block carries the redemption clause, issuing authority, and date of 1 October 1914. |
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| Obverse lettering | SUCRERIE D'ANVAING BON DE GUERRE DE UN FRANC N° 1753 Remboursable en monnaies coursables en Belgi- que, au bureau de la Sucrerie. Pour la Sucrerie d'Anvaing, Les fondés de pouvoirs, 1er octobre 1914 Imp. J. Leherte-Courtin, Renaix. |
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Sucrerie d'Anvaing was a beet sugar factory in the Hainaut village of Anvaing, and this note is a product of the currency collapse that followed Germany's August 1914 invasion of Belgium. With the National Bank's branch network disrupted and coin disappearing from circulation almost immediately, industrial and commercial enterprises across occupied Belgium began issuing their own emergency fractional notes — bons de nécessité — to keep local wage payments and small transactions moving.
Leherte-Courtin in Ronse printed a large number of these local emergency issues for firms across the region. The printer's proximity to the issuer mattered; paper and transport were not reliable luxuries in the autumn of 1914.