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5 Centimes - Roubaix
| Emittent | Commune of Roubaix (Department of Nord) |
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| Jahr | 1915 |
| Typ | Local banknote |
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| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Letterpress-printed emergency bon de nécessité on blue-green card stock, with black text arranged in horizontal registers across the left portion of the note: the upper register cites the war years 1914–15 and the issuing city of Roubaix, followed by the denomination in words and a clause specifying redemption for goods at participating merchants. To the right, a wavy-bordered rectangular frame encloses a large red numeral '5' denoting the face value in figures. |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | The reverse of this plain card stock emergency voucher carries the city's coat of arms printed in black on the left side, while a wavy-bordered rectangular frame at right repeats the red face-value numeral '5'. The printer's imprint is set in small capitals along the lower margin. |
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| Anmerkungen |
Roubaix was under German military occupation from October 1914, and French-issued currency quickly disappeared — hoarded, requisitioned, or simply exhausted from circulation. Municipalities across the occupied Nord department responded by printing their own emergency cardboard tokens, the so-called "monnaies de nécessité," to keep local commerce functioning at all. This Chevalier-printed piece is a product of that administrative improvisation, issued by the commune rather than any banking authority precisely because no banking authority remained operative.
The 5-centime denomination is the smallest practical unit in these Nord series. Chevalier's shop on the rue du Curoir was already producing commercial print work in the city — the occupation simply added emergency scrip to the order book.