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5 Centimes - Avelghem
| Uitgever | Hotel Rubens, Avelghem |
|---|---|
| Jaar | |
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| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Cardboard |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain buff card stock produced by letterpress, with no vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuer's name "HOTEL RUBENS" and location "AVELGHEM." are set in bold uppercase type across the upper portion, divided from the lower text by a short horizontal rule. At the lower left appears the Dutch redemption legend "Goed vo" and at the lower right the denomination "5 c." in a large decorative typeface. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Entirely plain, unprinted card surface of uniform buff-tan tone, bearing no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opmerkingen |
Belgian necessity money issued by a private establishment — in this case a hotel acting as a de facto micro-issuer during the German occupation of World War One, when small-denomination coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation. Hundreds of Belgian communes, shops, and businesses printed or stamped their own token money between 1914 and 1918 to fill the void. Cardboard was the most common substrate, cheap and available where paper was not.
Avelghem is a small municipality in West Flanders. That a single hotel here issued fiduciary tokens redeemable presumably on-premises speaks to how completely the monetary infrastructure collapsed at the local level.