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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Commune d'Isserville |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note with a decorative typographic border of repeating floral and club motifs enclosing the entire face. The issuer name COMMUNE D'ISSERVILLE is set in bold arched lettering at the top, with the large numeral denomination 0.10 at centre. The authorising reference Délibération Municipale du 5 avril 1917 appears in two lines below the denomination, and the printer's imprint is set vertically along the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with a simple double-rule rectangular frame enclosing the entire reverse. A large circular mairie validation stamp is applied at centre, partially overlapping the text. Four lines of letterpress text in the centre state the condition of validity, requiring the seal of the Mairie d'Isserville to be affixed for the note to be considered legal. |
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Isserville was a small French colonial settlement in the Mitidja plain west of Algiers, and like dozens of similar communes in wartime Algeria, it resorted to locally printed emergency fractional notes when the metropolitan coin supply collapsed after 1914. The French Treasury's decision to suspend silver and bronze coinage circulation created acute small-change shortages across North Africa, forcing municipalities and commercial associations to fill the gap themselves.
Mauguin's Blida press handled much of this emergency printing for the surrounding region. The official stamp served as the primary authentication — without a dedicated watermark or intaglio printing, that ink stamp is effectively the only barrier against copying.