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| 正面描述 | Printed in black on orange cardboard, the obverse is enclosed within a rectangular decorative border with ornamental corner pieces and column motifs. The inscription UNION DES COMMERÇANTS arcs along the upper portion, while the large denomination numeral 0f.10 occupies the centre field. The issuer name D'ORLEANSVILLE is set in bold capitals along the lower margin, with a small engraver's mark visible in the lower right corner. |
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| 背面铭文 | UNION DES COMMERÇANTS Orléansville (Translation: Merchants Union — Orléansville) |
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Orleansville — now Chlef — was a mid-sized Algerian colonial town, and like dozens of similar municipalities during the First World War, its local merchants' union issued small-denomination emergency scrip to plug the acute shortage of fractional coinage. The French government had suspended the melting and minting of small coins under wartime metal restrictions, and by 1915–1916 the gap in everyday commerce was severe enough that chambres de commerce and commerçants' unions across Algeria and metropolitan France were printing their own substitutes.
The Union des Commerçants issues from Orleansville are among the more obscure provincial Algerian pieces from this period. Orange-tinted card stock was a common shorthand for the 10-centime denomination across multiple issuing bodies, helping illiterate users sort values by color.