Katalog
Warum registrieren? Nur um Bots aus unserem Katalog fernzuhalten. Ihre E-Mail bleibt privat — wir geben sie nie weiter und senden Ihnen nichts Unerwünschtes. Das garantieren wir Ihnen!
| Emittent | Ville de Bône (Commune of Bône, Department of Constantine) |
|---|---|
| Jahr | 1916-1918 |
| Typ | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Nennwert | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Währung | Franc (1848-1959) |
| Material | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Größe | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Form | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Druckerei | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Designer | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Stecher | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Im Umlauf bis | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Referenz(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Vorderseitenbeschreibung | Yellow guilloche underprint fills a rectangular frame with decorative corner flourishes, against which the bold black letterpress denomination '10 CENT.' is printed in the upper portion. Below, the issuer inscription 'VILLE de BONE' appears in a smaller typeface, followed by the serial number prefixed by 'No.' The printer's imprint 'BONE. – IMP. CENTRALE MARIANI.' runs along the bottom margin outside the frame, accompanied by a secondary control number. |
|---|---|
| Vorderseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Plain yellow underprint within a rectangular border, largely unprinted. Faint show-through of the obverse lettering is visible, and traces of a purple validation stamp or handwritten annotations appear across the face, indicating administrative endorsement for circulation. |
| Rückseitenlegende | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Unterschrift(en) | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Sicherheitsmerkmal | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Varianten | Anmelden um Details zu sehen |
| Anmerkungen |
Bône's municipal emergency notes of 1916–1918 belong to a broader phenomenon across French Algeria during the First World War: the near-total disappearance of small coin from circulation as metal was redirected toward the war effort, leaving communes scrambling to produce their own low-denomination substitutes. Bône — a port city on the northeastern Algerian coast, export hub for iron ore from Ouenza — had the local printing infrastructure to act quickly. Mariani's press was a working commercial printer, not a security facility, and the notes reflect that.
These were purely functional stopgaps, redeemable by the municipality and intended to vanish once coinage returned. Few survived deliberate redemption.