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10 Centimes - Chambre de Commerce d'Oran
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Oran |
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| Year | 1916 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ORAN 0f,10 Remboursable à toute présentation 1916 IMP MOULLOT MARSEILLE |
| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in red-orange, carries a plain typographic layout within a dark decorative rectangular border. The issuer's name CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ORAN is set at the top, followed by the bold legend BON POUR in large letterpress type. The denomination 0fr10 CENTIMES is centrally placed in oversized characters, flanked by two six-pointed star ornaments, with the year 1916 along the lower border. |
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Oran's Chamber of Commerce began issuing these small-denomination emergency notes in 1916 as the wartime drain on metal coinage left Algeria's commercial sector functionally paralyzed. The Moullot firm in Marseille, a well-established lithographic house with a long history of printing Algerian administrative material, produced several denominations for Oran across multiple series during this period. Watermarking on notes this small was an unusual precaution — most French colonial emergency issues of comparable size relied on paper quality alone.
JP#141-49/51 spans three catalogue numbers for what are likely date or signature variants within the same printing run.