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10 Centimes - Roubaix
| Issuer | Commune of Roubaix (Department of Nord) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie Typographique & Lithographique A. H. Chevalier |
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| Obverse description | Typeset text printed in black on yellow card stock, with the face value numeral '10' rendered in red within a ruled rectangular frame at right. The central legend identifies the emergency issue as a wartime bon (token note) redeemable for goods from local merchants, with the denomination spelled out in lowercase as 'dix centimes'. |
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| Reverse description | The municipal coat of arms of Roubaix is printed in black at upper left, with the numeral '10' in red within a ruled frame at right. The city name appears as a large ghost underprint across the central field, and the printer's imprint runs along the lower margin in small letterpress type. |
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Roubaix spent nearly the entire war under German military occupation, and the occupying administration's requisitioning of metal coinage — copper and nickel alike — created an acute shortage of small change almost immediately. Local municipalities across Nord and Pas-de-Calais were forced to print their own emergency fractional notes, a practice tolerated by the Germans largely because they had no practical alternative. The Chevalier print shop on rue du Curoir was one of several local commercial printers pressed into producing these bons de nécessité.
The 10 centimes denomination saw the heaviest daily use and the highest attrition rate accordingly.