Union Coopérative Liège - 100 Kg de charbon ND

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Value in a circle of grenetis.

Script: Latin

Lettering: 100

Unabridged legend: 100 Kilos

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History of Union Coopérative via http://numisvaldesalm.be/Liege.pdf, page 249.

https://www.musee-gourmandise.be/fr/musee-gourmandise/articles-de-fond/77-musee-gourmandise/articles-fond/139-jetons-alimentaires:
Other charitable institutions (besides the Société de Saint-Vincent-de-Paul), such as the Société d'alimentation économique, issued food tokens. Bread at 5 centimes, soup at 10 centimes, vegetables at 10 centimes, meat at 20 centimes, beer at 5 centimes, and complete meals at 50 centimes. Montegnée, Ougrée and Verviers helped supply their populations with bread tokens. La Vieille Montagne in Hollogne distributed bread tokens to its workers. Many cooperatives in Amay, Flémalle-Grande, Fléron, Liège, Ougrée, Seraing and Welkenraedt sold bread tokens to deliverymen. Most of these local cooperatives were replaced in 1918 by the Union coopérative, which continued the same system (6 different tokens). Private bakeries also used bread tokens: Kersten in Mons-Croteux, Lenaerts in Seraing, J. Wauthier also in Seraing, and the Grande Boulangerie Block in Liège. At the École technique de Seraing, students bought tokens at a modest price, entitling them to a midday meal.