Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
15 Centimes Comité Bruxellois
| Issuer | Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation – Comité Bruxellois |
|---|---|
| Year | |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Franc (1832-2001) |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Ce bon n'est pas remboursable en espèces COMITÉ NATIONAL DE SECOURS ET D'ALIMENTATION COMITÉ BRUXELLOIS Série A N°85,214 BON pour des marchandises d'une valeur de quinze centimes à prendre exclusivement dans les magasins du Comité bruxellois de Secours et d'Alimentation et dans les magasins communaux de Bruxelles. Le Trésorier, Le Président, (deux signatures) CHARITÉ DÉVOUEMENT JEAN PATTESSON.BRUX. |
| Reverse description | Typeset text in a plain double-rule rectangular border, laid out in four columns presenting bilingual (French and Dutch) redemption instructions and lists of authorised stores. The printer's imprint appears at lower right. No pictorial vignette; the reverse relies entirely on letterpress text. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Comité National de Secours et d'Alimentation was the vast Belgian civilian relief organization that kept roughly ten million people fed during the German occupation in World War One, operating in uneasy partnership with Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium. The Comité Bruxellois was its Brussels-district arm, and these small-denomination notes were issued to facilitate local distribution payments and wage substitutes when fractional coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, exported, or melted.
E. Guyot was a well-established Brussels commercial printer, not a security press, which shows in the modest production values. Jean Pattesson's design credit is unusual for a note of this type and denomination.