10 Centimes Constantine Chamber of Commerce

Constantine's Chamber of Commerce began issuing these aluminum tokens during the severe small-change shortage that gripped French Algeria after World War I — the metropolitan French government was slow to supply subsidiary coinage to the colonies, and local commerce ground to a halt without it. Chambers of Commerce across Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco filled the void themselves, issuing necessity currency that circulated with de facto official tolerance.

The Constantine issues are among the more localized of these emissions, reflecting the city's role as the commercial hub of eastern Algeria rather than a coastal administrative center.