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5 Centimes
| Uitgever | Compagnie de Mokta-El-Hadid, Direction de Bénisaf |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1916 |
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| Valuta | Franc (1848-1959) |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
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| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Blue-ground note with white letterpress text arranged in three registers within a simple rectangular border decorated with a scrollwork frame. The issuer's abbreviated name appears at the top, followed by the bon pour legend and the large denomination numeral '0F.05' in the centre, with 'centimes' below. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Plain buff paper reverse bearing a single oval validation handstamp applied in blue-black ink, containing the issuing company's name around the perimeter, the date '5 DEC 1916' across the centre, and 'DIRECTION de BENISAF' at the foot. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Mokta-El-Hadid was one of the largest iron ore mining operations in colonial Algeria, and Bénisaf — its port and extraction site on the Oran coast — functioned as a largely self-contained industrial town. During the First World War, the acute shortage of small change throughout French Algeria drove numerous private employers to issue their own low-denomination emergency scrip. This note is one of those — a purely local instrument, redeemable only within the company's own commercial ecosystem and worthless the moment a worker left the site.
The Compagnie de Mokta-El-Hadid had French metropolitan backing, but day-to-day life at Bénisaf ran on whatever the company chose to circulate.