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3 Francs Sucrerie d'Anvaing
| Issuer | Sucrerie d'Anvaing |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | Printed in pale blue with the same ornate border as the obverse, the reverse carries two lines for manuscript signatures above the roles Un des Echevins and Le Bourgmestre, with two handwritten signatures applied across the centre. A large circular official blue ink stamp of the commune of Anvaing, bearing a rampant lion at its centre, is applied at mid-left. A text block in the upper area sets out the redemption conditions. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Anvaing is a small agricultural village in Hainaut, and its sugar refinery — the Sucrerie d'Anvaing — was among hundreds of Belgian industrial and commercial firms that issued emergency small-denomination paper when coin disappeared almost overnight following the German invasion in August 1914. The Belgian government had no apparatus to flood the countryside with fractional currency fast enough, so factories, municipalities, and cooperatives filled the gap themselves.
Leherte-Courtin of Ronse was a regional printer that produced a number of these local emergency issues across Wallonia and the Flemish-Walloon border area. The official stamp is the sole security measure — adequate for a note circulating among refinery workers and local tradespeople who would have recognized it on sight.