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0,10 Franc
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Djibouti |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Value | 10 Centimes (0.10) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff cardboard note of typographic execution, entirely without vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuer's name appears in large letterpress type at the top within a simple double-rule rectangular border, with the denomination value "0f,10" set in bold type within an inner ruled box at centre. The reimbursement clause is printed in italic letterpress below the denomination panel, and a handwritten manuscript notation is visible to the right of the denomination box. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE DJIBOUTI 0f,10 Remboursable au porteur (Translation: Chamber of Commerce of Djibouti. 0 francs 10. Redeemable to the bearer.) |
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The Chambre de Commerce de Djibouti issued this cardboard emergency note in 1919 to address a chronic small-change shortage that had plagued French Somaliland throughout the First World War. Metal coin production had been prioritized for the war effort in Europe, leaving colonial outposts like Djibouti starved of fractional currency for years. The chamber of commerce — not the colonial treasury — stepped in as issuer, a common workaround in French territories where central banking infrastructure was thin.
The cardboard substrate makes survivors particularly vulnerable to humidity damage, and Djibouti's climate was not kind to them.