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5 Francs - Nouvelle Union Verrière Lodelinsart
| Issuer | Nouvelle Union Verrière (Lodelinsart, Province of Hainaut) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 1894 ASSOCIATION PROFESSIONNELLE 1915 NOUVELLE UNION VERRIÈRE Ce billet est garanti par l`actif de la Société coopérative `La Ruche ouvrière` ainsi que par les valeurs représentant le portefeuille de `La Nouvelle Union Verrière` Il sera payable trois mois après la reprise du travail dans les Verreries du bassin de Charleroi. LODELINSART, le 15 MARS 1915 N° 2942 Le Secrétaire Le Trésorier Le Président (signature) (signature) (signature) Un Contrôleur Un Contrôleur (signature) (signature) Un Administrateur Un Administrateur (signature) (signature) 5 Fr J. Delacre & Fils. Charleroi |
| Reverse description | Within a rounded-corner border, a lengthy explanatory text legend appears above the denomination. A rectangular red handstamp of the issuing organisation is applied at the lower portion of the note. |
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Lodelinsart sits within the Charleroi industrial basin, and by 1915 the German occupation had effectively strangled the Belgian banking system. Factories and glassworks that kept their workers on site issued their own emergency scrip to maintain some functional economy inside the plant — this note from Nouvelle Union Verrière is exactly that kind of instrument. J. Delacre & Fils were a local Charleroi printing house pressed into service across multiple such industrial issuers during the occupation, which is why their work turns up on notes from several different Hainaut companies.