Tongeren (present day province of Belgian Limbourg, Belgium) was in Roman times Atuatuca Tungrorum, the capital of the Tungri,
who were placed in the area by Ceasar after his genocide on the Eburones. In the town is minted for the bisshops of Liège.
During the First World War, the city issued eight series of emergency banknotes (emergency money), four dated 14 August 1914
and four undated.