10 Centimes

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.