Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-22
MONEY LOOKS LIKE
A YEAST TICKET
American Newspaper Man Re-
calls Injunction Don't
Take Chinese Money"
COULD PASS "CONFED" BILL
Various Cities Issue Coinage for
Which Municipality Is
Responsible.
COULD PASS "CoNFED" BILL
ny MonEMT wELLEs RrrcnrE.

CLIENT. BELGIUM. December ii
,i Donh take any Chinese money" is
Ing by one friend to another back
nome over here. in the cities of re-
a seemed beisium Chinese money would
win the brass zine. pastcboard and
paper SCRAPS that pass as coin in King
ate 500 bill dropped out Of a window
OF the Hotel de Vile here i'm Chem
might cause scramble that would
TO subduc.
When the German tide flooded over
his unhappy land in 1914 beforcsrN.en
me smoke had passed from burning
gan sucking Re!gium dry Of it's ac-
sumuinted wealth. The story of the
iihi nmi. iewie i, Of millions upon mil
teiiins, bu; one OF The immediate re-
suits Of this wholesale plundering of
the banks and private Golfers is not
so widely recognized with gold Sill
yer. and even copper. fractional coin
age sucked into the German nav. the
the stern necessity of creating a new
medium OF exchange.
Ihen j; was the various cities began
issuing cach its own coinage. for the
stood responsible. The eXilad GOV
eminent at Havre also authoriz ed is
sues OF notes on the Bank OF Belgium
as we'll as the minting of currency
out OF zinc The Germans were not
SLOW to Hood the country with their
OF" "F 10 ,"ar r5 in tiny shin piasters
the grand result, was ii bewilderiirg
Inslsnse q! fiat money behind the line
map OF Europe and now so recently
crumbled. What held true in Eel
GUM also obta !ned in the captured
seen money from Lille and Va!en-
ciennes that looks like comic vaien-
tines.
In 1914 and 1915 before the pinch Of
meta lack. became acute with the
Germans zinc and brass coins were
Surned out Py The Belgian cities. /
example, square OF some question
able metal about the size OF a cough
s sG}dIeng ga whlch Is copperpiated on one
verse. On the brass side is stamped
a a, rampan; lion, with the Inscription
''S,ad' Cent" and Vile Gand" en-.
circlins the beast The reverse bears
merely the stamp 30. indicating the
PLUMBER COULD PLUG
DI>HPAN WITH PIECE
pilmber misht pi"G u dishpan
s MI,n .his ~ Gsntime piece. but per-
oath 1t was real money.
n,a nere is another numismatic night
of iaf our ha JfrGte OF cardboard the size
bells pasted on both sides On one side
one may get a b!rd's-eye view of the
lowers OF ST Bavon's in Client un-
der the legend ''Stad Gent" The re-
verse bears y large 10 c. and these
word Tit Bataalbaap Januari la.0.''
II that is a promise on the part OF
the citNN of Client 10 pay me the
epu;Haient o. Two American pennies
IN 1920. | might as well publicly in
form the Stockholders of this beauti
Jul town RICH. here and now that
shall not be there 10 collect. They
may scratch tha, debt Off their books.
what with shinp!asters from Os-
y. nh Ty,.,,S
ugly red and black bits or German
papeT hearing the late lamentcd I'm
pcrial Eagle and the inscription Fin
MARK and assorted sizes and shapes
OF BRASS and zine. breaking perfectly
good French l0-frnnc note II, a Belgian
shop these days has its compemsatimc
!, barber to-day, after leaving N,
with an odor that would have caused
my arrest ms public nuisance on
broadway. palmed of yeas; t!cke, of
me belgian Relief Commission amid
my assorted coupons and iron washers
coming as change for Il bona hide franc
note And he got away with IL.