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50 Centimes Brown
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Oran |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ORAN Cinquante Centimes 0,50 Le Président Le Trésorier |
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| Reverse lettering | 0,50 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ORAN Délibération du 4 Fevrier 1920 Imp Moullot Marseille |
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| Comments |
Oran's Chamber of Commerce resorted to locally authorized emergency paper in the years following World War I, when small-denomination coin shortages across French Algeria made daily commerce genuinely difficult. These chambres de commerce issues were a widespread French and colonial phenomenon of the period — the central authorities tolerated them as a practical stopgap, not a formal monetary arrangement.
Moullot & fils aîné, the Marseille firm that printed this note, was a commercial lithographer rather than a specialist security printer. The relative modesty of the production reflects that — anti-counterfeiting measures were limited.