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10 Francs Maison du Colon
| Issuer | American Officer's Club, Maison du Colon |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain unadorned face printed in black letterpress on white paper stock. Serial number in the upper centre, followed by the issuer name and venue in graduated typefaces, with the designation FOOD CHIT centred below. The denomination 10 FRANCS appears in bold at lower left and lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | AMERICAN OFFICER'S CLUB MAISON DU COLON. FOOD CHIT 10 FRANCS |
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The Maison du Colon — "House of the Colonist" — was a social club in Algiers that issued its own scrip during the Allied occupation following the November 1942 Torch landings. This note circulated internally among American officers as a substitute for official currency in a city where the monetary situation was genuinely chaotic: Free French, Vichy-era, and U.S. military financial instruments all competed simultaneously. Club scrip of this type was never redeemable through any banking channel and was typically discarded or destroyed when a unit rotated out.
Surviving examples are accidental — pocketed as souvenirs rather than preserved by collectors.