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1 Franc Brown and green
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Oran |
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| Year | 1923 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on green guilloche underprint, with the issuer's title in a banner scroll at top centre. Two putti flank the central vignette of the Oran municipal coat of arms, set against a decorative foliate and fruit garland. Denomination circles appear at left ("1 fr.") and right (Arabic script), with the deliberation date inscribed across the centre field. |
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| Reverse 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.) |
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The Chambres de Commerce in French Algeria issued their own emergency paper money during and after the First World War, stepping in when small-denomination coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. Oran's chamber was among the more prolific, producing multiple series across different denominations well into the early 1920s — this 1923 franc note appearing near the tail end of that local emergency currency period, by which point France was slowly reasserting central control over small-change provision in the colonies.
Algerian chambre issues are frequently found with heavy handling wear; they moved through markets, cafés, and ports in a city that was one of the busiest Mediterranean trading hubs of the period.