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10 Centimes Verviers
| Issuer | City of Verviers (Province of Liège) |
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| Year | 1914 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Two lateral frames flank a central brazier vignette, with the denomination indicated above on each side. Below the central vignette, the coat of arms of the Province of Liège appears at lower left and the arms of the City of Verviers at lower right. The centre of the note carries the principal legend above a view of the town hall, with the date, issuing authority, and three manuscript facsimile signature lines of the Bourgmestre, Echevin des Finances, and Secrétaire Communal. |
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| Reverse description | A foliate border frames the entire reverse, printed in red. The coat of arms of the Province of Liège appears at upper left and the arms of the City of Verviers at upper right. The central field carries the authentication notice in letterpress text, with the municipal seal and serial number struck in black. |
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Verviers issued its own emergency fractional notes in the weeks following the German occupation of August 1914, when coin hoarding emptied local tills almost overnight. Dozens of Belgian communes did the same — municipal necessity, not any central authorization. The city's own administrative seal and handwritten signatures stood in for the security apparatus that simply wasn't available.
Verviers had been one of Belgium's principal wool-working centers, and its wartime municipal paper circulated almost entirely within a tight local economy already strangled by occupation controls. These notes were never intended to travel far.