Catalogus
| Uitgever | City of Verviers (Province of Liège) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1914 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | 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 |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Official seal, Manuscript signatures |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
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.