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50 Centimes Duffel
| Issuer | Municipality of Duffel (Province of Antwerp) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Franc |
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| Obverse description | Brown on pale ochre underprint. The left vignette shows a classical female allegory seated at a writing desk, while the right vignette presents a statue of a male figure on a pedestal, with a townscape and bridge visible in the centre background. The municipality name 'GEMEENTE DUFFEL' is printed in large display lettering at the top, with the denomination 'VIJFTIG CENTIEMEN' in bold below, the issue date '22.NOV.1917' at the upper centre, and facsimile signatures of the secretary and burgomaster flanking the central scene above the serial number. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on pale ochre underprint. The entire background is covered with a repetitive 'GEMEENTEDUFFEL' microtext pattern forming the outer field, with denomination numerals '50' in dark oval cartouches at left and right centre. A large, intricate circular guilloche rosette occupies the central portion of the note. Inscriptions appear in two ruled panels, one at the top and one at the bottom. |
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Belgian municipal emergency notes of the German occupation period were a direct consequence of the Sociéte Générale de Belgique's improvised role as economic administrator under occupation — coin hoarding had stripped small denominations from circulation almost entirely by mid-1915, forcing hundreds of communes to print their own fractional scrip. Duffel's issue is one of the smaller Antwerp province series, authorized locally rather than through any central coordinating body, which accounts for the variation in format and authority across even neighboring communes.
Minguet and Poortman served as municipal officials whose countersignatures validated the note's local acceptance — neither was a banker.