Catalog
10 Centimes Verviers
| Issuer | City of Verviers (Province of Liège) |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10) |
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| Reverse lettering | VILLE DE VERVIERS Pour être authentique, le bon de caisse doit porter les marques suivantes : 1° La signature du Bourgmestre, de l'Echevin des Finances et du Secrétaire communal. 2° Le sceau de la Ville de Verviers. N° 65470 1914 0.10 |
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| Protection description | Municipal seal of the City of Verviers struck in black on the reverse; three manuscript signatures of the Bourgmestre, Echevin des Finances, and Secrétaire Communal on the obverse, as described in the authentication notice on the reverse. |
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Verviers issued its own emergency fractional notes in the weeks following the German occupation of August 1914, when coin hoarding emptied local tills almost overnight. Dozens of Belgian communes did the same — municipal necessity, not any central authorization. The city's own administrative seal and handwritten signatures stood in for the security apparatus that simply wasn't available.
Verviers had been one of Belgium's principal wool-working centers, and its wartime municipal paper circulated almost entirely within a tight local economy already strangled by occupation controls. These notes were never intended to travel far.