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1 Franc
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Djibouti |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Size | 112 × 78 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE DJIBOUTI ARRÊTÉ DU 30 NOVEMBRE 1919 UN FRANC Le Trésorier, Le Président, SÉRIE A. No. 1 Fr. A. DESVAGES IMP Echangeable contre des Billets de la Banque de l'Indo-Chine. (Translation: Chamber of Commerce of Djibouti. Order of 30 November 1919. One franc. The Treasurer, the President. Series A. Exchangeable for Bank of Indo-China banknotes.) |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE DJIBOUTI 1 Fr. (Translation: Chamber of Commerce of Djibouti. 1 Franc.) |
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The Chambre de Commerce de Djibouti issued emergency fractional notes during and after World War One to address a chronic shortage of small coinage — a problem that plagued French Somaliland throughout the colonial period given the territory's near-total dependence on imported specie. The 1919 date places this note in the post-armistice period when the coin shortage had not yet resolved.
Printing at the Imprimerie Alexis Desvages in Addis Ababa is an unusual arrangement — a French colonial chamber of commerce procuring notes from a press operating in the Ethiopian capital, across the border, rather than from a metropolitan French printer.