Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Centimes
| Issuer | Régence de Tunis |
|---|---|
| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 50 Centimes |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | RÉGENCE DE TUNIS CINQUANTE CENTIMES خمسون صانتيما Série 040 No 46010 Décret du 4 Novembre 1918 29 Moharrem 1337 الأمر العلي المورخ في 4 نوفامبر 1918 و في 29 محرم 1337 LE TRÉSORIER GÉNÉRAL DE TUNISIE LE DIRECTEUR GÉNÉRAL DES FINANCES VALEUR ÉCHANGEABLE CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE هاذه التذكرة قايدة تبادل بنقادر البانكة الجزائرية LE CONTREFACTEUR EST PUNI DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ المدلس يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة على الأبد PROTECTORAT FRANÇAIS LITHO & GRAVURE F. WEBER |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | RÉGENCE DE TUNIS DIRECTION GÉNÉRALE DES FINANCES PROTECTORAT FRANÇAIS T. 50c. P. IMP. YVORRA BARLIER |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
The Régence de Tunis finance directorate issued small-denomination emergency notes during the First World War largely because the hoarding of metal coinage had stripped everyday transactions of any usable small change — a problem that afflicted French-administered territories as badly as the metropole itself. This particular 50 centimes note was produced jointly by two printers, Weber handling lithography and engraving while Yvorra Barlier managed the actual impression, an arrangement that speaks to the piecemeal way wartime printing contracts were assembled.
The sole security measure was an official stamp applied post-printing — a thin barrier against forgery, but adequate for a denomination too low to attract serious criminal effort.