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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bougie-Sétif |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Size | 50 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | Square note printed in green and black, centred on a heraldic vignette of a crowned coat of arms supported by a lion and a bear, enclosed within a dotted guilloche border carrying the legend CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE, with BOUGIE and SÉTIF flanking the lower arc and two five-pointed stars at mid-height. The year 1916 appears in a cartouche at the base of the central medallion, while decorative floral corner squares frame the overall composition. The designer's name Moncade is inscribed in the lower right margin. |
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| Protection description | Watermark present in the paper substrate; exact motif not confirmed from catalog sources. |
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| Comments |
Bougie-Sétif's Chamber of Commerce resorted to these small emergency issues in 1916 because the war had drained France's metropolitan coinage supply so completely that small-denomination bronze had effectively vanished from Algerian circulation. Chambers of commerce across Algeria were authorized to fill the gap with locally printed paper, and Jourdan's Algiers press — which closed the same year — handled several of these regional issues simultaneously.
The 50 × 50 mm square format was a deliberate choice to distinguish denomination by shape, reducing confusion among an only partially literate public. Moncade's design work for Jourdan appears on multiple Algerian emergency issues from this period.