Bon pour /Goed voor 250 grammes de pain/brood / Ville de Gand

Ghent's municipal bread vouchers of 1918 were emergency subsistence tokens issued during the final year of German occupation, when the city's civil administration struggled to maintain basic food distribution under severe import restrictions. The Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation, operating through local branches, coordinated much of this rationing, but individual municipalities printed supplementary bons to fill gaps in the allocation system.

Buyck Frères was a local Ghent printer, not a security printing house — which is precisely why counterfeiting these was relatively straightforward and why multiple variants exist across the series.