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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Philippeville |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Printer | Imprimerie Jules Carbonel (Imprimeries La Typo-Litho et Jules Carbonel), Algiers, Algeria |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on green paper. Two standing allegorical female figures flank the central denomination: the left figure holds a garden hoe and a toothed wheel, symbolising industry, while the right figure carries wheat sheaves and stands beside a watering can, symbolising agriculture. The issuer's name appears in a cartouche at the top, with the denomination "BON POUR 0,10" in bold type at centre, and the printer's imprint along the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress print on green paper. A circular seal of the Chambre de Commerce de Philippeville (Algérie) appears at left, and a heraldic coat of arms with motto ribbon at right. Two manuscript signatures of the President and the Secrétaire-Trésorier are applied in the central field beneath the deliberation date. The series letter and serial number are printed in bold type along the lower border within a plain rectangular frame. |
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Philippeville's Chamber of Commerce resorted to issuing its own fractional emergency notes after the First World War disrupted the supply of small coinage across French Algeria. These chambres de commerce issues were a widespread stopgap throughout metropolitan France and the colonies during and immediately after the war — small denominations that the banking system simply couldn't keep in physical circulation.
Jules Carbonel was the dominant commercial printer in Algiers for this class of work, producing emergency notes for several Algerian municipalities during the same period. Philippeville itself is now Skikda, renamed after Algerian independence in 1962.