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5 Centimes Senzeilles
| Issuer | Administration Communale de Senzeilles |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Size | 68 x 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Typeset bon on plain paper within a single-rule border, with text in black letterpress across the main field. A red circular communal seal bearing the Belgian lion coat of arms is applied at centre, overlapping a boxed denomination stamp reading "5 Cent." at upper right. A vertical guilloche coupon strip with serial number in red occupies the right margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Commune de SENZEILLES BON pour l'achat de marchandises d'une VALEUR de 5 Cent. valable exclusivement dans les magasins communaux de la commune de Senzeilles, jusqu'au 31 décembre 1919. Senzeilles, le 1er août 1918. Tickets Maurice, Bruxelles. ✶ ADMINISTRATION COMMUNALE DE SENZEILLES ✶ NAMUR |
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Senzeilles is a village of a few hundred souls in the Walloon province of Namur. That a commune this small issued its own emergency paper in 1918 tells you everything about how completely the German occupation had drained Belgium of usable coinage — municipalities, tramway companies, and individual merchants all filled the gap with locally printed scrip, and the legal framework was loose enough that almost anyone could try.
Tickets Maurice of Brussels was a commercial ticket printer, not a security printing house. The firm handled public transport tickets and event admissions; wartime necessity turned it into a banknote manufacturer.