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1 Franc Brown
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Oran |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ORAN UN FRANC Le Président Le Trésorier 1 fr. (Translation: Oran Chamber of Commerce. One franc. The President. The Treasurer.) |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print on yellow guilloche underprint, with the same decorative brown ornamental border as the obverse. At bottom centre, two putti or young boys flank a heraldic coat of arms, forming the principal vignette. The overall design is typographic and symmetrical, with the chamber name and legal deliberation text arranged around the central motif. |
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The Chambres de Commerce across French Algeria issued their own fractional notes during the early 1920s because the metropolitan banking system consistently failed to supply adequate small-denomination coinage to the colonies. Oran's chamber was among the most prolific issuers, producing several distinct types across the war and postwar years to fill a gap that Paris showed little urgency in closing.
The 1922 date places this note in the tail end of that emergency emission period, shortly before tighter metropolitan oversight curtailed local commercial chamber issue rights in French North Africa.