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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Mechelen, City of |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10 BEF) |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE MALINES - BON POUR 10 CENTIMES - LOUCKX KAAI |
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| Reverse lettering | STADT MECHELEN - GOED VOOR TIEN CENTIEMEN - N° A 9190 - Date : 04.OCT.1917. A. GEUDENS DEL. GER. POORTMAN & G. MINGUET |
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Mechelen was under German occupation when this note was issued, and like dozens of Belgian communes in 1917, the city resorted to printing its own fractional emergency money — the national coinage having been systematically hoarded or removed from circulation. These small municipal issues were legal within the occupation framework only to the extent that the Germans tolerated them; they filled a real transactional gap at the street level.
The engravers Poortman and Minguet were both active in Belgian small-change emergency issues during this period, their names appearing across multiple commune series. Geudens as designer is a local Mechelen connection — his involvement suggests the city commissioned the work with some civic intention rather than simply contracting it out wholesale.