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1 Franc Green
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bône |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BÔNE Date de la Délibération 5 Janvier 1921 UN FRANC برنك |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BONE Date de la délibération 5 Janvier 1921 IMP MOULLOT MARSEILLE |
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Bône's Chamber of Commerce issued this note — along with a wider series of small-denomination emergency paper — to address the chronic coin shortage that plagued French Algeria throughout and after the First World War. French metropolitan coinage disappeared from circulation as hoarding and wartime metal demands stripped the colonies of small change. Chambers of commerce across Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco filled the gap with locally authorized papier-monnaie de nécessité, a practice the French Treasury tolerated but never formally embraced.
Moullot fils aîné was the dominant commercial printer in Marseille for North African work, handling emergency notes for several Algerian chambers during this period.