25 Centimes

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.