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10 000 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1955-1957 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of seagulls in flight against a panoramic view of the port and hillside city of Algiers, rendered in intaglio with fine multicolour underprint. A decorative compass rose motif occupies the left field, flanked by ornate guilloche scroll borders on each side. The bank title in elaborate calligraphic script arches across the upper portion, with the denomination in bold letterpress at the foot, three signature panels, and the issue date below. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE ET DE LA TUNISIE DIX MILLE FRANCS L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS LE CONTREFACTEUR LE CAISSIER GÉN. LE GOUVERNEUR LE SECRÉTAIRE GÉN. R. POUGHEON FEC. J. PIEL - ARMANELLI SC. |
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Robert Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate whose fine-arts pedigree shows in the draftsmanship, and Jules Piel was among the Banque de France's most accomplished intaglio engravers of the postwar period — this is a technically accomplished note by any measure. The reverse engraving fell to Georges Beltrand, whose full middle name, Égalité, was a direct inheritance from the revolutionary period, a biographical footnote that turns up occasionally in French printing records.
The timing matters: production ran through 1957, by which point the Algerian War was two years in and the colonial monetary order this note embodied was already under serious political strain. The Bank of Algeria was dissolved and reconstituted as the Banque Centrale d'Algérie in 1963.