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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Philippeville |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-green letterpress note with a central text panel supported by a guilloche underprint enclosed within a decorative border. Two seated allegorical female figures flank the central field, each accompanied by symbolic attributes, lending the composition a classical chamber-of-commerce aesthetic. The issuer's name and denomination value 'fr 0.10' are rendered in bold typography within the central panel. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE PHILIPPEVILLE BON POUR fr 0.10 |
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Philippeville — now Skikda — was an Algerian port city under French colonial administration when this note was issued. The acute coin shortage of 1914–15 pushed dozens of Algerian chambres de commerce to issue their own small-denomination emergency paper, and Moullot fils aîné in Marseille became the default printer for much of this regional nécessité currency across North Africa.
The 10 centimes denomination was the most-used and most-worn tier of the series, and surviving examples in clean condition are harder to find than the higher values.