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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Commune de Sivry |
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| Size | 75 x 45 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | COMMUNE DE SIVRY Emission communale Bon de 10 Centimes Remboursable dans les 6 mois suivront la conclusion de la paix. ADMINISTRATION COMMUNALE DE SIVRY HAINAUT Imp. Libert, Mons. |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, consisting of plain light blue-green paper stock with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Sivry is a small commune in Hainaut, and like hundreds of Belgian municipalities it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional notes during the German occupation of World War I. The national banking system had effectively seized up, and coins had vanished into hoarding and metal requisitions almost immediately after August 1914. Local authorities were left to fill the gap themselves.
Imprimerie Libert in Mons was a workhorse printer for this kind of municipal necessity — the firm turned out necessity notes for multiple Hainaut communes during the occupation years.