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50 Centimes Chambre de commerce
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Djibouti |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#Tn1; Lec#95 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 50 c |
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Djibouti's Chambre de Commerce began issuing its own token coinage in 1920 precisely because the French colonial monetary supply was chronically inadequate for small retail transactions — French Somaliland had no local mint and depended entirely on imported specie that rarely filtered down to low-denomination circulation. These chamber issues filled that gap as a matter of commercial necessity, not official policy.
The nickel-zinc alloy reflects wartime and postwar metal constraints that continued shaping small-denomination coinage well into the early 1920s.