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50 Centimes - Villes de Roubaix et de Tourcoing
| Issuer | Villes de Roubaix et de Tourcoing |
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| Currency | Franc (1795-1959) |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in rose-red on an intricate guilloche underprint, the reverse carries the municipal arms of Roubaix at left and Tourcoing at right, each surmounted by a mural crown, with the respective city names ROUBAIX and TOURCOING printed beneath. A large central oval panel contains the anti-counterfeiting penal code warning text. The denomination 0.50 is repeated in each corner within circular cartouches, and the printer's imprint appears along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | L'article 139 du Code pénal punit des travaux forcés à perpétuité ceux qui auraient contrefait ou falsifié les billets de banque autorisés par la loi ainsi que ceux qui auront fait usage de ces billets contrefaits ou falsifiés. Ceux qui les auront introduits sur le territoire français seront punis de la même peine. ROUBAIX | TOURCOING IMP. ACHILLE SÉNÉCAUT ROUBAIX |
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Roubaix and Tourcoing were occupied by German forces from October 1914, cutting them off from the French national banking system almost immediately. These two industrial cities — closely linked economically through the textile trade — issued emergency fractional notes jointly rather than separately, an arrangement that reflected genuine administrative interdependence rather than bureaucratic convenience.
Sénécaut was a local Roubaix printer, not a security press. The notes were produced under occupation conditions, with all the material limitations that implies.