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50 Centimes - 70 Communes du Nord [59] et du Pas-de-Calais [62]
| Uitgever | 70 Communes du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1915 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Rectangular |
| 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 | Log in om details te zien |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Control stamp |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Circular handstamp of the Commission de contrôle applied in violet ink to the face of the note; validity clause states that any bon lacking this stamp is not valid. |
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| Opmerkingen |
During the German occupation of northern France in 1915, the regular monetary supply collapsed almost immediately — German authorities restricted French banknotes while the Banque de France was cut off from the occupied zone entirely. The response was hyperlocal: groups of municipalities banded together to print their own emergency fractional currency. This note is one of the more administratively ambitious examples of that improvisation, pooling seventy communes across two departments under a single issuing authority.
Printed by Henry Lefebvre in Cambrai — itself an occupied city — the logistical circumstances of production were anything but ordinary. The control stamp served as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, a thin line of defense for a note already circulating under occupation.