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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Nationaal Hulp-en-Voedings Komiteit Gewest Lokeren (National Aid and Food Committee Region Lokeren) |
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| Year | 1914-1918 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red ink, the obverse carries a vignette of the St. Laurentius Church (locally known as the 'peperbus' or pepper mill) to the left, alongside the municipal coat of arms of Lokeren — 'Raap en rooster' (Turnip and Grill) — to the right. The issuing authority's name and denomination are set in bold letterpress text across the centre, with the repeated underprint monogram N.K.G.L. (Nationaal Komiteit Gewest Lokeren) forming a decorative background pattern. The layout is framed by a plain border typical of wartime emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | DIT BRIEFJE IS UITBETAALBAAR OP ZICHT TE LOKEREN 10c Serie A Nr 066168 10c door de "Banque Centrale De la Dendre" en door de Hulpkomiteiten van het Gewest (Translation: This note is payable on sight at Lokeren 10c Series A No. 066168 10c By the "Banque Centrale De la Dendre" and by the Auxiliary Committees of the Region) |
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The Nationaal Hulp-en-Voedings Komiteit was the Belgian network organized under American Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium — the largest food relief operation the world had seen to that point. The regional Lokeren committee, like dozens of others across occupied Belgium, issued its own fractional emergency notes when German requisitioning drained the country of coin almost immediately after the 1914 invasion.
These hyper-local issues were printed by whatever press was available in town and backed by nothing more than communal trust. Lokeren's notes were never redeemable beyond the immediate district.