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Tessender - Tessenderlo
| Issuer | Belgium |
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| Year | 1984 |
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| Currency | Franc (1832-2001) |
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| Reverse description | Central device consisting of a large ornate letter 'B' superimposed within a post horn, surmounted by a royal crown with trefoil finials above. A scroll banner below the horn bears the Latin motto PARVI SED MAGNI. The legend '40 JAAR BEVRIJDING' arcs across the upper field, with the commemorative dates 1944 and 1984 flanking the lower field on either side. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Belgian municipal token coinage — the so-called "noodgeld" or necessity money issued by communes — proliferated during periods when official small change was scarce or administratively inconvenient to distribute locally. Tessenderlo, a small municipality in the Flemish province of Limburg, issued this piece in 1984 at a time when such local tokens were already anachronistic, suggesting a specific civic or commemorative purpose rather than genuine circulatory need.
Alpaca, a copper-nickel-zinc alloy, was the workhorse metal of Belgian local token issues throughout the postwar decades.