1 Franc Zaouïa de Blida

Blida's wartime necessity tokens were issued by local commercial chambers and municipalities across Algeria when the French metropolitan supply of small coinage collapsed after 1914. The Zaouïa de Blida — a Sufi religious lodge with deep roots in the town — lent its name and presumably its authority to this piece, an unusual arrangement that reflects how civic and religious institutions in colonial Algeria sometimes operated in close administrative proximity.