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1 Franc Bône Chamber of Commerce
| Issuer | Chamber of Commerce of Bône |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#TnB8, Lec#219, El Mon.#15.4 |
| Obverse description | Draped bust of Marianne facing left, her hair loosely flowing and tied with a ribbon, rendered in a neoclassical style. The bust is framed by two laurel and oak branches joined at the base by a tied ribbon bow. The circular legend REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE runs along the upper periphery. The engraver's name BORY appears in small letters beneath the bust near the lower rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLIQUE FRANCAISE BORY |
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Bône (present-day Annaba, Algeria) was cut off from regular French colonial coinage supplies during WWI, leaving local commerce effectively paralyzed for small transactions. The Chamber of Commerce stepped in as an emergency issuing authority — a practice repeated across French North Africa during the same period, with similar bodies in Oran, Bougie, and Constantine producing their own emergency tokens. Nickel silver was a deliberate choice: cheaper than cupronickel, it signaled these pieces were always intended as temporary instruments rather than permanent currency.