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10 Centimes - Hasselt
| Issuer | City of Hasselt (Province of Limburg) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 69 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset emergency issue printed in black letterpress on light-blue paper, with all text arranged in eight lines within a plain single rectangular border. The printer's imprint appears below the main text block, and the series designation is printed vertically along the right margin. No pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint is present, consistent with the utilitarian character of wartime municipal currency. |
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| Obverse lettering | STAD HASSELT GOED voor aankoop van waren ter waarde van 10 CENT. Alleenlijk geldig in de Gemeente- magazijnen der Stad Hasselt tot den 31 December 1918. Hasselt, den 1en Juli 1918. Imp. Van Langenacker, Hasselt. Z. Nr. 522. 6-7-18. N° 17147 |
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Belgian municipal emergency notes from the German occupation years are common enough as a category, but most were printed by outside firms brought in for the task. Hasselt printed its own — Van Langenacker was a local commercial printer, not a specialist banknote house, which shows in the workmanship. The Province of Limburg saw particularly disruptive requisitioning of coin by occupying forces in 1917–18, forcing dozens of communes to issue their own small-denomination scrip just to keep markets functioning.
The city rather than the provincial authority signed off as issuer, a jurisdictional choice that kept redemption liability strictly local.