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10 Centimes Alger Chamber of Commerce
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Alger |
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| Year | 1916-1917 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ALGER 1916 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Algiers' Chamber of Commerce began issuing these iron tokens in 1916 because the wartime metal requisitions that fed France's artillery foundries had drained the colony of bronze and copper coinage almost entirely. Iron was the fallback — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, who found it prone to rust in the humid North African climate. Circulation wear on surviving pieces frequently exposes the base metal beneath any remaining surface, making truly problem-free examples harder to locate than mintage figures alone would suggest.