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25 Centimes - Ville de Lille
| Issuer | Ville de Lille (Municipal Authority) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Size | 85 × 55 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a symmetrical ornamental layout with four circular guilloche cartouches at the corners each bearing the denomination 25c, and the City of Lille fleur-de-lis arms centred at the foot. The central field contains the anti-counterfeiting statutory warning text drawn from Article 189 of the Penal Code, set in roman type within a lightly decorated surround. A circular VILLE DE LILLE CONTRÔLE control stamp is applied in black ink over the centre of the note, and the printer's imprint DELEMAR & DUBAR LILLE appears in the lower right margin. |
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| Protection description | Circular black ink control stamp reading VILLE DE LILLE CONTRÔLE, applied by hand to the reverse as a validation mark required for the note to be valid. |
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Lille spent most of World War One under German occupation — from October 1914 until liberation in October 1918. Small-denomination municipal notes like this one were issued because the occupying authorities disrupted normal coin supply, and local bodies were left to improvise. The Ville de Lille produced several emergency fractional issues, with Delemar & Dubar handling the printing locally under occupation conditions, which is itself a quiet logistical curiosity.
The control stamp served as the primary authentication measure — a practical necessity when counterfeiting small municipal scrip carried real local consequences.