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2 Francs Neder-Eename
| Issuer | Comité local de Neder-Eename (Nationaal Hulp- en Voedingscomiteit) |
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| Size | 70 × 44 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Nationaal Hulp- en Voedingscomiteit WERKLOOZENFONDS GOED VOOR TWEE FRANKEN WAREN betaalbaar door `t Plaatselijk Comiteit van NEDER-EENAME (Translation: Comité national d`aide et d`alimentation. Fonds pour les chômeurs. Bon pour deux francs payable auprès du Comité local de Nederename.) |
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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.