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10 Centimes Sinte Kathelijne Waver
| Issuer | Gemeente Sint-Katelijne-Waver (Province of Antwerp) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | The denomination numeral 10 is set at centre against a decorative gear or cog-wheel motif forming the underprint. Textual legends are contained within ruled frames above and below the central device, carrying the redemption and handling instructions in Dutch. |
| Reverse lettering | UITKEERBAAR DEN EERSTEN DINSDAG VAN IEDERE MAAND BIJ DER HEER GEMEENTEONTVANGER. 10 BELEEF VERZOEK DIT BRIEFJE NIET TE PLOOIEN. (Translation: Échangeable le premier mardi de chaque mois au bureau du Receveur communal. 10 Veuillez ne pas plier ce billet.) |
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During the German occupation of Belgium in World War One, hundreds of municipalities were forced to issue their own emergency paper fractional currency — gemeentekas or noodbons — after occupation authorities drained the country of coin. Sint-Katelijne-Waver, a small agricultural commune southeast of Mechelen, was among the smallest communities to produce such notes, and surviving examples are proportionally scarce simply because so few were printed to begin with.
Belgian municipal issues of this period were typically authorized under local council resolution and printed by whatever printer was accessible under wartime conditions. The Antwerp provincial communes often used local job printers, which accounts for the typographic simplicity common to this series.