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10 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Philippeville |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Currency | Franc (1848-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress impression on cream paper within a decorative guilloche border with ornamental corner devices. Two allegorical female figures in classical robes are seated on either side of the central field — the left figure at a spinning wheel and the right beside industrial implements — flanking the large denomination numeral '0.10' in bold type. The issuer's name 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE PHILIPPEVILLE' is inscribed in capital letters across the upper portion within a panel framed by the inner border. |
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| Reverse lettering | Délibération de la Chambre de Commerce EN DATE DU 7 OCTOBRE 1915 LE PRÉSIDENT LE SECRÉTAIRE TRÉSORIER ÉCHANGEABLE CONTRE LES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE D'ALGÉRIE IMP. MOULLOT-MARSEILLE |
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Philippeville — now Skikda in northeastern Algeria — was a French colonial port city whose Chamber of Commerce resorted to emergency paper fractional currency during the First World War when coin shortages became acute across French-administered territories. These small-denomination nécessité notes were a local solution to a metropolitan problem: the wartime hoarding and melting of bronze and copper coinage left everyday commerce without small change.
Moullot fils aîné in Marseille printed extensively for Algerian commercial and municipal issuers during this period, making them the practical choice for a Chamber of Commerce needing a short print run across the water.