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10 Centimes - Ville de Douai
| Issuer | Ville de Douai (Mairie de Douai) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Reference(s) | JP1418#59.2960 |
| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured paper bon of typeset letterpress design, unadorned by vignette or guilloche work. The upper left quadrant bears a circular municipal cachet inscribed VILLE DE DOUAI, while the denomination 0.10 cent. is set in bold type to the upper right, with the legend BON de DIX Centimes in large display type across the centre. Below, a two-line authorisation clause references the délibération du Conseil Municipal du 6 Mai 1915, followed by a validity condition requiring the stamp of the Mairie, and the manuscript-style printed signatures of the Receveur Municipal intérimaire and the Maire. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, presenting a plain expanse of aged cream paper with no text, vignette, or ornamental device of any kind. |
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Douai was occupied by German forces from October 1914 through the armistice, and this note was issued under that occupation — the municipal authority printing emergency small change because the metal coinage supply had collapsed and the occupying administration controlled normal banking channels. The cachet served as the primary authentication device, since sophisticated security printing was simply not available.
Balmade signed as interim municipal receiver, suggesting the regular holder of that post was either displaced, conscripted, or otherwise unavailable — a small but telling detail about the administrative disruption of occupied northern France in 1915.