Catalog
100 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1861-1874 |
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| Composition | Cotton paper |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
| Protection description | Intricate lathe-work guilloche patterns covering the reverse; fine engraved scrollwork borders on the obverse. |
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The Banque de l'Algérie was established in 1851 with a monopoly on note issue in the colony, its charter modeled closely on the Banque de France but with a far narrower and more volatile economic base — largely tied to agricultural credit and settler commerce. Notes of this series circulated through a period of sustained French consolidation, including the droughts and rural disruptions of the late 1860s that pushed much of the indigenous population into destitution and triggered the major 1871 Kabyle uprising shortly after this series closed.
Surviving examples are uncommon. Colonial Algerian paper from this period suffered hard use and was rarely preserved by collectors at the time.