10 Centimes

Belgian municipal emergency notes issued during the German occupation of World War One fall under the broad category of "noodgeld" — necessity money printed by towns, communes, and provinces after the occupying authorities disrupted normal currency supply. Lier, a small walled city southeast of Antwerp, issued its own fractional notes to keep local commerce moving when small-denomination Belgian coins had been hoarded or melted. The German military administration tolerated these emissions but did not authorize them through any central mechanism, which is why designs, paper quality, and overprint styles vary so dramatically across Flemish municipalities from the same period.

The 1918 date places this note in the occupation's final year, when confidence in any temporary scrip was at its lowest and many issues circulated only weeks before the armistice.