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20 Francs Sint-Jan-Baptist Zelzate
| Emittent | Paroisse Sint-Jan-Baptist, Zelzate (Province of East Flanders) |
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| Nennwert | 20 Francs |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | A full-field green geometric underprint, applied by letterpress, forms the decorative ground of the note. Bilingual legends in Dutch and French are printed in black at centre, identifying the issuing authority, while the denomination numeral '20' appears at both left and right margins in bold type. The text 'TWINTIG FRANK / VINGT FRANCS' is set prominently at centre, flanked by the parish name 'SINT-JAN-BAPTIST ZELZATE'. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse carries no independently printed design elements; the cream-white paper stock is left entirely unprinted, with faint show-through impressions of the obverse legends and numerals visible in mirror image through the thin substrate. |
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Belgian parish emergency notes occupy a peculiar corner of notaphily. During the acute coin shortage of World War One, hundreds of Belgian communes, parishes, and local businesses issued their own small-denomination scrip to keep trade moving after official coinage vanished from circulation. The ecclesiastical issuer here — a parish rather than a municipality — was not unusual for Zelzate or East Flanders more broadly; the Catholic Church's deep administrative presence in rural Flemish communities made parish-issued bon de caisse a practical and trusted instrument where no other authority stepped in.
Zelzate sits on the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal, a detail that gave it slightly more commercial activity than a purely agricultural village, which likely drove the need for this denomination specifically.