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2 Francs Sucrerie d'Anvaing
| Issuer | Sucrerie d'Anvaing |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SUCRERIE D'ANVAING BON DE GUERRE DE DEUX FRANCS N° 1729 (entre deux lignes) Remboursable en monnaies coursables en Belgique, au bureau de la Sucrerie. Pour la Sucrerie d'Anvaing, Les fondés de pouvoirs, (deux signatures) 1er octobre 1914 Imp. J. Leherte-Courtin, Renaix. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ce BON est remboursable en monnaies coursables en Belgique, dans les trois mois qui suivront la signature de paix, à la caisse communale d'Anvaing. Le Bourgmestre, Un des Échevins, (deux signatures) BON DE GUERRE DE DEUX FRANCS N° Remboursable en monnaies coursables en Belgique, au bureau de la Sucrerie. Pour la Sucrerie d'Anvaing, Les fondés de pouvoirs, 1er octobre 1914. Imp. J. Leherte-Courtin, Renaix. |
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Anvaing is a small village in Hainaut, and the Sucrerie d'Anvaing was a beet sugar refinery — exactly the kind of rural industrial employer that issued emergency scrip during the German occupation of Belgium in 1914, when official coinage vanished from circulation almost immediately after the invasion. These notes were a practical response to a real problem: workers needed to be paid and local commerce needed a medium of exchange.
Leherte-Courtin in Renaix was a regional printer, not a security press, and these notes should be assessed accordingly.