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5 Centimes Duffel
| Issuer | Municipality of Duffel (Province of Antwerp) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 5 22.NOV.1917 GEMEENTE DUFFEL GOED VOOR VIJF CENTIEMEN DE D.D.SECRETARIS DE BURGEMEESTER 5 5 G.MINGUET GER.POORTMAN |
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| Reverse lettering | UITKEERBAAR DEN EERSTEN DINSDAG VAN IEDERE MAAND BIJ DEN HEER GEMEENTEONTVANGER. 5 5 BELEEFD VERZOEK DIT BRIEFJE NIET TE PLOOIEN. |
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One of thousands of Belgian municipal emergency notes issued under German occupation, this piece reflects a practical crisis: the occupying authorities had systematically drained coinage from circulation, leaving small-denomination transactions impossible for ordinary commerce. Communes across Belgium were authorized — or simply compelled by circumstance — to print their own fractional paper to keep local markets functioning.
Duffel, a small municipality in the Antwerp province, was no monetary authority, and the signatures of the burgemeester and a municipal secretary carried the note's only guarantee. Redemption depended entirely on the commune surviving the occupation solvent enough to honor its paper.