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25 Centimes Rance
| Issuer | Commune de Rance (Province of Hainaut) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 25 Centimes (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | Plain rectangular border encloses the text legend printed on a red geometric underprint; the denomination of 25 Centimes appears in a recessed inner frame at centre. A red municipal cachet is applied to the face, and the serial number is placed vertically outside the border at the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is unprinted, plain paper stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Rance is a small municipality in southern Hainaut, better known for its distinctive bluish-grey marble than for its monetary history. This 25 centime note was issued during the German occupation of Belgium, when the occupying authorities drained coin from circulation to feed the war machine, forcing hundreds of Belgian communes to print their own emergency scrip — a phenomenon so widespread that Belgian local issues from 1914–1918 now constitute a substantial collecting field in their own right.
Tickets Meurice operated in Brussels throughout the occupation, printing municipal necessity notes for numerous Hainaut and Brabant communes. That a Brussels printer supplied a village in the Ardennes fringe is unremarkable for the period — local options were simply nonexistent.