1 Franc Bône Chamber of Commerce

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.