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The Chambres de Commerce throughout French Algeria issued their own emergency fractional notes during and after the First World War, filling the acute shortage of small change that the central monetary system failed to address. Oran's chamber was among the more prolific issuers, producing multiple series across several denominations through the early 1920s as the coin shortage dragged on far longer than anyone had anticipated.

Algerian chambre notes of this period are frequently found with heavy handling wear — they circulated hard in a port city economy — and the paper on many surviving examples has absorbed humidity damage consistent with the Mediterranean climate.