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25 Centimes - Villes de Roubaix et de Tourcoing
| Issuer | Villes de Roubaix et de Tourcoing |
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| Value | 25 Centimes (0.25) |
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| Obverse lettering | 0,25 | 0,25 VILLES DE ROUBAIX ET DE TOURCOING BON DE MONNAIE SÉRIE AZ 21 25 CENTIMES Garanti par les Villes de Roubaix et de Tourcoing et remboursable à partir du sixième Mois après la Conclusion de la Paix Le Maire de Roubaix N° DE CONTRÔLE Le Maire de Tourcoing Pour être valable, ce billet doit porter le N° de Contrôle 0,25 | 0,25 |
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| Reverse lettering | 0,25 | 0,25 25 Cents. ROUBAIX TOURCOING 0,25 | 0,25 |
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Roubaix and Tourcoing issued emergency small change notes jointly during World War One, when coin shortages left the textile-industry towns without enough metal currency for day-to-day transactions. The arrangement was unusual — two separate municipalities co-signing a single circulating instrument, each mayor's signature lending the note legitimacy across both towns. Gustave Dron was Tourcoing's long-serving mayor through the German occupation, a period during which the occupied Nord département effectively had to manage its own monetary supply under enemy administration.
The watermark security feature was a modest but deliberate deterrent against local forgery.