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25 Centimes Pepinster
| Issuer | Comité Local de Pepinster (Province of Liège) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain typeset letterpress design enclosed within a single rectangular border, with the denomination and a signature rendered as a red underprint across the central field. The main text legend occupies the centre, with conditions of use set in smaller type below the denomination value; a vertically oriented panel at the right margin, within its own subsidiary frame, carries the household card number designation. The serial number appears outside the main frame at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Comité National du Secours et d`Alimentation COMITÉ LOCAL DE PEPINSTER (ligne horizontale) BON pour l`achat de marchandises d`une valeur de (dans un cadre :) 25 CENT. (ligne horizontale) Valable exclusivement dans les magasins du Comité ou dans les Magasins communaux de la commune de Pepinster, contre présentation de la carte de ménage, pendant deux quinzaines seu- lement. C.D. n° 3355 - Tickets Meurice . Bruxelles (dans un cadre vertical à droite :) N° de la carte de ménage. (hors cadres :) N°00621 |
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Pepinster is a small textile town in the Vesdre valley, and like hundreds of Belgian communes it resorted to locally printed emergency paper during the German occupation of 1914–18, when coin all but vanished from circulation. The Comité Local — typically a municipal committee empowered by the occupation administration to manage local economic stopgaps — issued these low-denomination notes to keep small transactions moving in markets and shops.
Tickets Meurice of Brussels was one of the more prolific printers of Belgian commune notes during this period, supplying dozens of local authorities across occupied Belgium with modest but serviceable emergency issues.