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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Gemeente Wetteren (Municipality of Wetteren, Province of East Flanders) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 25 Centimes (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | GEMEENTE WETTEREN 25 CMEN De Secretaris De Burgemeester Druk. O. De Graeve, Wetteren |
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| Reverse lettering | 1918 VIJF·EN·TWINTIG CENTIEMEN GEMEENTE X IIII WETTEREN BETAALBAAR TER GEMEENTEKAS NAAMAK WORDT STRENG GESTRAFT 25 CMEN Druk. O. De Graeve, Wetteren |
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During the German occupation of Belgium in World War One, the occupying authorities systematically drained the country of coin — copper and nickel had obvious military utility. Municipalities across Flanders were left with no small change to function and began printing their own emergency paper fractionals, a phenomenon the Belgians called "noodgeld." Wetteren's issue was printed locally by O. De Graeve, a Wetteren printer, which was entirely typical of the municipal approach: cheap, fast, and entirely self-contained within the community that needed it.
These small-denomination notes rarely survived in quantity. Most circulated hard in wartime conditions, and once the occupation ended they were redeemed and discarded by a public that had never wanted paper farthings in the first place.