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5 Francs - Pipaix
| Uitgever | City of Pipaix (Province of Hainaut) |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1940 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | 5 Francs |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | A five-line text legend is set within a scrollwork border, with the denomination numeral appearing in the upper-left and upper-right corners. A blue municipal cachet and the countersignature of the alderman (échevin) are applied by hand, authenticating this wartime communal emergency issue. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Blank salmon-pink paper with no printed design, text, or ornamental elements; the reverse serves solely as the plain backing of this emergency communal voucher. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opmerkingen |
Pipaix is a village of a few hundred people in the Walloon municipality of Leuze-en-Hainaut. That a settlement this small issued its own emergency currency in 1940 is less surprising than it sounds — the German invasion of May that year triggered a near-total collapse of payment infrastructure across Belgium, and hundreds of communes, businesses, and charitable institutions filled the gap with locally printed bons de caisse. Most were produced hastily, on whatever materials were available, with virtually no anti-counterfeiting provision.
The extreme localism of these issues meant redemption was often restricted to specific shops or municipal services, limiting circulation radius to a few streets.