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5 Centimes
| Issuer | Commune de Oued-El-Alleug |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Currency | Franc (1848-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on green cardboard, enclosed within a plain rectangular border. The issuing authority appears at the top, followed by the authorizing municipal council deliberation date of 19 November 1916, with the denomination '0f05' set in large bold type at centre. A note to the bearer instructs that the stamp of the Mairie must be present on the reverse, with the printer's imprint at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain green cardboard reverse, bearing a single large circular black municipality stamp applied by hand, serving as the authentication and validation mark required by the obverse text. The stamp impression is partially legible and occupies the greater part of the surface. |
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Oued-El-Alleug is a small agricultural commune in the Mitidja plain west of Algiers, and in 1916 it was doing what dozens of Algerian municipalities were forced to do: printing its own emergency fractional currency on cardboard because the war had drained metropolitan France of its small-change coinage. The Banque de l'Algérie's centime coins had effectively vanished from circulation by 1915, hoarded or melted, and local councils stepped into the void with whatever a nearby printer could produce.
J. Vernet's press in Boufarik handled several commune issues in this region. The official stamp served as the primary authentication — without it, the cardboard rectangle had no standing at all.