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2 Francs - Banque d'émission de Lille 59
| Issuer | Banque d'Émission de Lille |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Reference(s) | JP1418#59- 1591 |
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| Obverse lettering | 266 Y.4 BANQUE D'EMISSION DE LILLE DEUX FRANCS 17 Août 1914 L'Administrateur délégué le Président, 2 2 Société anonyme au capital de cent mille francs Y.4 266 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in pale brown and buff tones with a dense overall guilloche lathe-work pattern filling the entire surface, with the numeral 2 appearing in each of the four corners within plain circular reserves. A central circular medallion, set against the guilloche background, contains the anti-counterfeiting legal warning text citing Article 139 of the Code Pénal. The border consists of multiple concentric decorative frames with floral rosette ornaments at intervals. |
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The Banque d'Émission de Lille was a hastily constituted emergency institution, created in the first weeks of German occupation in late 1914 to keep local commerce functioning after regular banking channels collapsed. These small-denomination chambres de commerce and occupation-era notes filled a vacuum left by the withdrawal of Banque de France currency from the occupied north.
L. Danel was a well-established Lille printing house — the fact that local production was possible at all reflects how rapidly the occupation administration sought to normalize daily transactions. Whether Danel operated under direct German oversight or retained some operational independence during this print run is not clearly documented.