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10 Centimes Dakar
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Dakar |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a single-funneled steamship under sail, shown broadside with two masts and rigging, navigating open waters. A large naval anchor is displayed to the right of the vessel. The engraver's signature 'J. BORY' appears in small lettering in the lower left field, with the date '1920' prominently positioned in the lower exergue. The legend 'SÉNÉGAL' arcs across the upper border within the octagonal flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Dakar Chamber of Commerce emergency issues of 1920 belong to a wave of locally produced nécessité coinage that proliferated across French West Africa when metropolitan coin shipments became unreliable in the aftermath of the First World War. Aluminium was chosen not for convenience but because brass and bronze allocations remained constrained by postwar industrial demand in France. These tokens circulated with genuine monetary authority in Dakar's markets despite having no official backing from the French Treasury.
The aluminium used was notoriously soft, and surviving examples with clean surfaces are harder to find than mintage figures alone would suggest.