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2 Francs - Fresnoy-le-Grand 02
| Issuer | Fresnoy-le-Grand, Commune of |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Cream paper bon de nécessité with a fine guilloche border running the full perimeter. The issuer name 'Fresnoy-le-Grand' is printed in large bold type across the upper section, flanked on each side by the denomination '2 fr.' in boxed panels; below, the authority 'Bon des Régions de Saint-Quentin & de Guise' and the emission clause appear in letterpress. The large central legend 'DEUX FRANCS' dominates the middle of the note, above a redemption text, the emission date of 8 August 1916, a serial number, and three manuscript signatures beneath the line 'Le Président et deux Membres de la Commission', with a circular communal violet stamp at lower left and the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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| Protection type | Watermark, Overprint |
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Fresnoy-le-Grand is a small textile town in the Aisne department, and this note is exactly what it looks like: a wartime necessity printed by a local newspaper press in nearby Saint-Quentin when the German occupation severed normal financial supply chains across northern France. Communes across the occupied zone issued their own emergency scrip from 1914 onward, each dependent on whatever printer happened to be reachable and still operational.
The Guetteur de l'Aisne press was one of the few functioning printing operations in the region under occupation. Saint-Quentin itself would be almost entirely evacuated by 1917 when German forces expelled the civilian population ahead of the Hindenburg Line withdrawal.