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1 Franc
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Constantine |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark green on cream paper. The upper portion bears the coat of arms of Constantine flanked by decorative foliate scrolls, with the deliberation date inscribed across the top. Below, a large panoramic vignette presents a city view of Constantine with its famous viaduct bridge in the foreground, signed by the artist Flaral in the lower right corner. The denomination "UN FRANC" is printed in bold letterpress above the vignette, flanked by manuscript signature spaces for the President and Secretary-Treasurer, with the denomination also rendered in Arabic script. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 DÉLIBÉRATION DU 20 NOVEMBRE 1922 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CONSTANTINE Le Président UN FRANC Le Secr.er Trésorier PHILIPPEVILLE - IMP. COSTANTINI |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency issues from Algeria's eastern cities are often overlooked in favor of metropolitan French notgeld, but the Constantine chamber's 1922 series has its own practical story. Postwar small-change shortages persisted in Algeria well after they had eased in mainland France — coin rarely made it across the Mediterranean in sufficient quantities, and local chambers filled the gap with paper.
Imprimerie Costantini operated out of Philippeville (modern Skikda), a port city about 80 kilometers from Constantine itself — an arrangement that says something about where the functioning commercial printing capacity actually was.