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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Ville de Marengo (Commune of Marengo, Algeria) |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE DE MARENGO BON pour 0.10 c. Délibération du Conseil Municipal en date du 24 Décembre 1916. |
| Reverse description | Printed on the same yellow-orange stock, the reverse carries a central vignette of a Gallic rooster walking left, set within an oval cartouche flanked by stylized cloud scrollwork; crescent moons and stars fill the four corners of the surrounding frame, reflecting the Algerian context of issue. A single text band runs above and below the central vignette carrying the redemption legend, with the denomination value 5 visible at the upper right. |
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Marengo was a French colonial settlement in the Mitidja plain west of Algiers, renamed from the Berber Douaouda after the Battle of Marengo in 1800 — one of dozens of Algerian villages handed Napoleonic battlefield names during the colonization period. By 1916, wartime metal shortages had stripped small change from circulation across France and its territories alike. Communes throughout metropolitan France and Algeria issued their own emergency fractional notes, typically in runs just large enough to cover local market needs.
The Ville de Marengo series is among the scarcer Algerian municipal issues of the period, reflecting both the town's modest size and low original print quantities.