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5 Francs
| Issuer | Administration Communale de Rumillies (Province of Hainaut) |
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| Year | 1914-1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is framed by a decorative red foliage border enclosing the full text of the bon de monnaie. The denomination is set within a black cartouche at the centre, with the series designation and serial number positioned to the right. Two manuscript signatures appear at the foot of the note, attributed respectively to the Secretary and the Burgomaster of the commune. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is otherwise plain, bearing a circular blue-violet official communal stamp reading ADMINISTRATION COMMUNALE DE RUMILLIES - HAINAUT with a heraldic lion at centre, applied to the upper left. An additional hand-stamped control number 468 appears vertically to the right. |
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Rumillies is a village of a few hundred souls in the Walloon Brabant — the kind of commune that under normal circumstances would never have issued currency at all. The German occupation of Belgium beginning in August 1914 strangled the normal money supply almost immediately, forcing thousands of municipal administrations, no matter how small, to print their own emergency scrip to keep local trade functioning. This note is a direct product of that administrative chaos.
The printer, Lithographie & Cartonnage de Tournai, produced emergency notes for numerous Hainaut communes during this period — Tournai itself fell to German forces in late August 1914, meaning the press was operating under occupation from very early in the war.