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1 Franc
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Constantine |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Franc (1848-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and green with a pink underprint, the obverse carries a vignette of a seated allegorical woman holding a caduceus at left and a male figure with an anvil at right, flanking the large central denomination. Black serial numbers appear on the note, with the issuing authority's name across the top and signature lines for the President and Treasurer below the central text. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1fr. CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CONSTANTINE UN FRANC Le Président Le Trésorier M. CHATILLON GRAVEUR Const. Imp. Lefert |
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The Chambre de Commerce de Constantine issued these fractional notes during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Algeria — and much of France and its territories — in the years immediately following World War One. Coin metal was still being hoarded or had been absorbed by wartime industry, and central banking infrastructure in the eastern Algerian interior was too thin to resolve the problem quickly. Local chambers of commerce across Algeria stepped in as de facto issuers of necessity currency throughout this period.
Lefert was a local Constantine printer, not a specialist security house, and Chatillon's engraving work reflects that — competent provincial craftsmanship rather than metropolitan precision.