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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Ville de Sidi-Bel-Abbès (Département de Oran) |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10) |
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| Reverse description | Plain red paper reverse printed in black letterpress, with a dotted border along the upper edge. The inscription 'VALEUR' appears in the upper portion, followed by the denomination '10 Centimes' in large serif type occupying the lower half. Diagonal pen or ink lines cross the surface, likely applied as a cancellation or validation mark. |
| Reverse lettering | VALEUR 10 Centimes (Translation: Value 10 centimes.) |
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Sidi-Bel-Abbès was the garrison town of the French Foreign Legion, and its municipal emergency notes were issued because the First World War triggered a near-total disappearance of small coinage across French Algeria — metal was requisitioned, hoarded, or simply stopped moving. Hundreds of French and Algerian communes issued their own papier-monnaie de nécessité under this same pressure between 1914 and 1920.
The Département d'Oran series is among the more obscure provincial Algerian issues, and Sidi-Bel-Abbès notes in particular turn up far less frequently than their metropolitan French equivalents — colonial circulation was hard on paper, and few were saved.