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50 Centimes Erpion
| Issuer | Commune de Erpion |
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| Value | 50 Centimes |
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| Obverse lettering | COMMUNE DE ERPION Emission communale Bon de 50 cent Remboursable dans les 6 mois qui suivront la conclusion de la paix Le Secrétaire, Le Bourgmestre, La contrefaçon sera sévèrement réprimée Tickets Meurice, Bruxelles ADMINISTRATION COMMUNALE * HAINAUT * L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, leaving the blue-green paper stock plain and unadorned. |
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Erpion is a village in the province of Hainaut with a population that has never exceeded a few hundred. That a commune this small issued its own emergency currency is less surprising than it sounds — during the German occupation of Belgium in World War One, the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage forced thousands of municipalities, even the most obscure, to print their own necessity notes. Tickets Meurice in Brussels supplied a considerable number of these communal issues, often working from simple stock formats.
The 69 × 50 mm format is characteristic of the smaller-value Meurice prints, cut tight to save paper.