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5 Centimes - Dourges
| Issuer | Commune de Dourges (Pas-de-Calais) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Printer | Plouvier & Chartreux, Carvin, France |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset note printed in black within a simple rectangular border, with the issuer name, denomination, and authorizing deliberation date arranged in text blocks across the face. A condition clause requiring the maire's official stamp for validity appears in the central legend, with the mayor's printed signature facsimile and a serial number at lower right. The printer's imprint appears at the foot of the note. |
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| Signature(s) | Dhumerelle (Maire de Dourges) |
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Dourges is a small mining commune in the Pas-de-Calais coalfield, and by 1915 the entire region was either under German occupation or in the immediate rear of the Western Front. Small change had vanished entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable — forcing hundreds of French communes to print their own emergency fractional notes. This is one of them.
Plouvier & Chartreux in nearby Carvin were a local printer, not a specialist banknote house. Their output for these wartime bons de nécessité was functional rather than secure.