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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Stad Dendermonde (City of Dendermonde) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on cream paper, the obverse presents a panoramic vignette of the Dendermonde cityscape with the tall belfry tower at centre and historic guild houses to the left, flanked by a distant church spire at right. The municipal coat of arms of Dendermonde, supported by lions and bearing the legend TENERE MUNDE on a scroll, occupies the upper left. The denomination numeral '10 C.' appears in a decorative cartouche at upper right alongside the issuer inscription, with a serial number in a scrollwork panel at lower centre, and facsimile signatures of De Burgemeester and De Secretaris to the right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in red on cream paper, carries a detailed letterpress vignette of the Dendermonde townscape with the belfry tower at left and a large Gothic church spire at right, framing the city's rooflines and trees at centre. The issuer name 'STAD DENDERMONDE' is set within an ornamental foliate cartouche at the top. The denomination '10 C.' is enclosed in a circular guilloche medallion at centre, beneath which a scroll cartouche bears the redemption clause in Dutch. |
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Dendermonde was burned and shelled by German forces in late August and early September 1914 — one of the most heavily devastated towns in occupied Belgium. This note comes from the recovery period well into the occupation, when municipal authorities across Belgium issued their own fractional emergency currency to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation. The German military had systematically stripped copper and nickel coinage for war industry use.
Having it printed locally by Du Caliu-Beeckman rather than by one of the larger Brussels firms was not unusual for a town of this size operating under wartime constraints.