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100 Nouveaux Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1959-1961 |
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| Engraver(s) | Obverse: Jules Piel, Robert Armanelli Reverse: Camille Beltrand |
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| Obverse lettering | Banque de l'Algérie CENT NOUVEAUX FRANCS 100 NF (Translation: Bank of Algeria – One Hundred New Francs) |
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| Reverse lettering | بنك الجزائر مائة فرنك جديد ١٠٠ ج (Translation: Bank of Algeria – One Hundred – New Franc – 100) |
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Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate and figure painter — an unusual choice for banknote design work, though the Banque de France drew on academic artists regularly during this period. Piel and Armanelli were among the more accomplished engravers on the Paris roster, and Beltrand came from an established dynasty of engravers whose work spans French printing back to the nineteenth century.
The timing of this issue matters. Algeria's war of independence was already four years in when the first signature date was struck. France would formally grant independence in July 1962, making this a short-lived series replaced almost immediately by the new Banque Centrale d'Algérie issues. Notes dated 1961 had a particularly brief window of legal circulation.