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100 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1861-1874 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, printed in a single dark tone, is dominated by an elaborate guilloche border of interlocking lathe-work patterns filling the entire surface. At the centre bottom sits an ornate oval medallion enclosing an eagle or imperial cipher motif, while a large compass-rose or star ornament occupies the upper centre. The overall design is purely typographic and geometric, with no figurative vignettes, intended as a security underprint that renders the note difficult to counterfeit. |
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| Protection description | Intricate lathe-work guilloche patterns covering the reverse; fine engraved scrollwork borders on the obverse. |
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The Banque de l'Algérie was established in 1851 with a monopoly on note issue in the colony, its charter modeled closely on the Banque de France but with a far narrower and more volatile economic base — largely tied to agricultural credit and settler commerce. Notes of this series circulated through a period of sustained French consolidation, including the droughts and rural disruptions of the late 1860s that pushed much of the indigenous population into destitution and triggered the major 1871 Kabyle uprising shortly after this series closed.
Surviving examples are uncommon. Colonial Algerian paper from this period suffered hard use and was rarely preserved by collectors at the time.