10 Centimes Economat des Mines

The Société de l'Ouenza operated iron ore mines in northeastern Algeria near the Tunisian border, and like many large colonial industrial concerns, it ran an economat — a company-controlled store system that tied workers to in-house purchasing. These brass tokens served as internal scrip, allowing management to pay partial wages in a medium redeemable only at company facilities. The practice was widespread in North African extractive industries through the mid-twentieth century and was eventually curtailed by labor reforms.

The Leclercq 343a designation distinguishes this from closely related variants in the series.