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100 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1956-1958 |
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| Printer | Banque de France, France |
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| Obverse description | Multicolour note printed on a blue, green, and ochre underprint of lush oak foliage and floral guilloche work; a large blank watermark oval occupies the left field. To the right, an intaglio portrait of a young woman in a circular guilloche frame, her hair wreathed in oak leaves, rendered in warm rose and blue tones. The denomination CENT FRANCS appears in large blue letterpress across the upper centre, with Arabic script للمائة فرنك positioned below centre. |
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| Reverse description | Multicolour reverse centred on an allegorical semi-draped female figure reclining at left against a dense oak-foliage background in blue and green, her raised left arm extending a bunch of grapes toward the viewer. A large blank circular watermark area enclosed within a guilloche border occupies the right field, with floral motifs at its base. A rectangular anti-counterfeiting warning cartouche is inscribed at lower left. |
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The Banque de France printed this series for colonial Algeria under an arrangement that had been in place since the late nineteenth century — the Banque de l'Algérie operated as a note-issuing authority subordinate to Paris, with its currency backed by and physically produced alongside metropolitan French issues. By the mid-1950s, that relationship was under acute political strain. The Algerian War of Independence had begun in November 1954, and the French administration was simultaneously printing currency for a territory it was fighting to hold.
Notes of this type circulated through a period of severe economic disruption, population displacement, and eventually the 1962 transition to the Banque Centrale d'Algérie. Many were demonetized rapidly and destroyed in bulk after independence.