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5 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bougie-Sétif |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Designer(s) | Moncade |
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| Reverse description | Printed on yellow-buff paper in black ink, the reverse centres the large numeral 5 within a circular guilloche wreath of laurel branches tied at the base with a ribbon, surmounted by a small winged motif at the top of the circle. The denomination CENTIMES appears in a straight legend below the numeral, while the initials R.F. (République Française) are inscribed on a banner across the upper portion of the design. Ornamental corner panels echo those of the obverse, and the printer's imprint IMP. JOURDAN ALGER is set in the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | R.F. 5 CENTIMES IMP. JOURDAN ALGER |
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Bougie-Sétif's Chamber of Commerce issued this emergency fractional note in 1916 because the wartime drain on metal coinage — copper and nickel requisitioned for the French war effort — left small transactions in the Algerian interior nearly impossible to conduct. Local chambers across Algeria were authorized to fill the gap with low-denomination paper, and dozens did. This note is one of the more obscure of that wave.
Adolphe Jourdan's Algiers press handled most of the official and semi-official printing work in colonial Algeria at this period. The designer credit to Moncade is rare enough to be worth noting — most comparable emergency issues went uncredited entirely.