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2 Francs - Nouvelle Union Verrière Lodelinsart
| Issuer | Nouvelle Union Verrière (Lodelinsart, Province of Hainaut) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | J. Delacre & Fils, Charleroi |
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| Obverse description | Within a bordered frame, the central vignette presents two glassblowers flanking the main text block, with an industrial landscape in the background. A beehive vignette appears at the lower centre above the denomination, with a serial number in black at the left centre. The printer's imprint appears at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Within a frame with rounded corners, the main text legend appears above the denomination. A rectangular red company cachet is applied at the lower portion of the note. |
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Lodelinsart sits in the heart of the Charleroi coal and glass basin, and Nouvelle Union Verrière was one of the major glassworks operating there when the German occupation effectively destroyed Belgium's monetary supply chain in 1914–15. Factory-issued scrip of this kind — bons d'entreprise — filled the vacuum left by hoarded coin and inaccessible bank currency, functioning as wage tokens redeemable at company stores or among local tradespeople who trusted the issuer.
J. Delacre & Fils in Charleroi printed for numerous Hainaut industrial issuers during the occupation, producing notes under increasingly constrained conditions. The 1915 date places this squarely in the first full year of German administration of the region.