150 grammes de pain - Ville de Gand

Obverse description	Plain typeset voucher with bilingual French and Dutch text arranged in six lines, the first two of which are bisected by the crowned coat-of-arms of the City of Ghent positioned at centre. The letterpress text states the entitlement to 150 grammes of bread, with the printer's imprint of F. & R. Buyck Frères at the foot. Corner marks in the form of the letter E surmounted by a point appear at each of the four corners.
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Reverse description	Plain unprinted reverse in cream-toned paper, with only faint bleed-through from the obverse letterpress text visible through the thin stock.
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Comments	This is not a banknote in any conventional sense — it is a bread ration coupon issued by the municipal government of Ghent, almost certainly during the German occupation of Belgium in the First World War. Ghent was under German military administration from late 1914, and the civilian population depended heavily on organized food distribution schemes, partly coordinated through the American-led Commission for Relief in Belgium. Municipal bread tokens of this type were the administrative machinery behind that system at street level. Buyck Frères was a Ghent commercial printer, which confirms local production under occupation conditions.