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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Plaatselijk Comiteit van Brugge (Local Committee of Bruges) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain unadorned reverse in typeset letterpress on buff paper, entirely occupied by a Dutch-language redemption notice in justified block text. No vignette or ornamental elements are present. The text instructs merchants on the procedure for exchanging the vouchers at the Committee offices on Karthuizerinnenstraat 4, every Monday morning from 8 to 12. |
| Reverse lettering | De neringdoeners mogen alleen dezen bon in betaling ontvangen en zullen de uitwisseling ervan bekomen in de Bureelen van het Comiteit Karthuizerinnenstraat, 4, iedere week, den Maandag voormiddag, van 8 tot 12 ure. |
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Belgian municipal emergency money — noodgeld — proliferated after the German occupation cut off access to coin metal and normal banking channels. Bruges issued its own fractional notes through a local relief committee, a structure the occupying authorities tolerated as a practical necessity for keeping basic commerce moving in occupied towns.
The Bruges series is among the more diminutive of the Flemish municipal issues. Notes of this denomination circulated hard and were rarely saved — low-value fractions were spent until they fell apart, which makes intact survivors genuinely uncommon.