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2 Francs Neder-Eename
| Issuer | Comité local de Neder-Eename (Nationaal Hulp- en Voedingscomiteit) |
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| Value | 2 Francs |
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| Obverse description | The entire face is printed in yellow-orange on plain paper, with a large numeral value forming a prominent underprint in the background. The central text field carries seven lines of letterpress inscription in Dutch, stating the issuing authority, the purpose of the bon, and the redemption body. No vignette or figurative element is present; the design relies entirely on typographic composition within a simple ruled border. |
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| Signature(s) | A. Verheylesonne and Oct. Cambier |
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Neder-Eename is a small village in East Flanders, and this 2 Franc note is precisely what it looks like: a hyperlocal emergency issue produced because the German occupation during World War I severed normal monetary supply chains entirely. The Nationaal Hulp- en Voedingscomiteit — the National Relief and Food Committee — was the Belgian administrative umbrella under which hundreds of individual communes issued their own necessity notes, each technically backed by the central committee but functionally autonomous.
Villages this small rarely produced more than a single print run, and survival rates are low simply because most were redeemed and pulped once the occupation ended.