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100 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Algérie et de la Tunisie |
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| Year | 1946-1948 |
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| Size | 140 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is centred on an intaglio vignette of an ancient Roman triumphal arch rendered as a background architectural element, before which a classical marble bust of Hermes, the Greek messenger deity, is positioned in the right foreground. The designer and engraver credits — R. POUGHEON FEC. BROUTIN SC. — are inscribed in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | R. POUGHEON FEC. C. BELTRAND SC. |
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The Banque de l'Algérie operated as a colonial institution under French charter, and by the mid-1940s its notes were being produced by the Banque de France's printing works — a common arrangement that gave Algerian currency the same technical quality as metropolitan issues while keeping it formally distinct. Robert Poughéon was a Prix de Rome laureate whose work appeared across multiple French colonial note series of the period; Joseph Broutin and Camille Beltrand were among the more accomplished intaglio engravers working in Paris at the time.
The date window for this type — 1946 through 1948 — brackets a period of significant political turbulence in Algeria following the Sétif and Guelma massacres of May 1945, though the notes themselves give no indication of that.