5 Francs - Nouvelle Union Verrière Lodelinsart

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.