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25 Centimes - Pipaix
| Emittent | Commune de Pipaix (Province of Hainaut, Belgium) |
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| Jahr | 1940 |
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| Material | Paper |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Plain light blue-grey paper stock with all text printed in dark brown letterpress. The commune name PIPAIX appears in large bold capitals at the top, flanked left and right by double horizontal rules. Below, the legend BON COMMUNAL DE is set in bold type, with the denomination 25 CENTIMES centred on the following line and flanked on each side by a symmetrical ornamental floral typographic vignette. The issue date 3-6-1940 is placed at lower left, with the countersignature designation L'Echevin in italic script at lower right. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Reverse entirely unprinted, consisting of the plain light blue-grey fibrous paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental device of any kind. |
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Pipaix is a village of a few hundred people in the Walloon municipality of Leuze-en-Hainaut. When German occupation severed normal coin supply in 1940, hundreds of Belgian communes issued their own small-denomination emergency notes — this is one of them. The Commune de Pipaix note for 25 centimes belongs to a vast, poorly documented class of hyperlocal scrip that functioned purely within tight geographic boundaries.
Most of these communal issues were printed on whatever stock was available locally, often in very small runs. Many were redeemed and destroyed once coins reappeared, making survivors genuinely scarce despite their original mundanity.