0,10 Franc

Madagascar's smallest wartime emergency issue, this 10-centime cardboard piece dates from 1916 — part of a series of low-denomination subsidiary notes produced because the metal coinage needed for everyday small transactions had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or diverted as Europe's war consumed base metals. Similar cardboard emergency currency appeared across French colonial territories in the same period for identical reasons.

The engraver credit to Turlo is notable: his name appears on several French colonial issues of the period, though pinning down his full biography remains difficult in the secondary literature.