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50 Centimes Ville de Gand
| Issuer | Stad Gent (City of Ghent) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Enclosed within a double-rule border, two allegorical figures — symbolising Strength and Victory — flank the central legend and denomination value; the printer's imprint appears at lower right. |
| Reverse lettering | Deze bon is uitbetaal- baar in het XIe bureel Pouillemarkt 7 alle werkdagen van 10 tot 12 ure Niet meer geldig na 28 Februari 1919 Karel Beyaert |
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Ghent's municipal administration began issuing small-denomination paper during World War I to compensate for the near-total disappearance of coin from circulation — hoarded by civilians and requisitioned by German occupation authorities simultaneously. The Ville de Gand / Stad Gent bilingual designation reflects the city's administrative bilingualism under Belgian law, not any particular political concession to the occupiers.
Karel Beyaert was a local Ghent printer, not a specialist banknote firm. At this size and denomination, production quality was necessarily modest — a local solution to a purely local problem.