100 Francs Pattern

Algeria in 1950 was still a French département, not a colony in the conventional sense, which makes this pattern politically loaded. The French administration was weighing a distinct Algerian coinage — separate from metropolitan French issues — at precisely the moment the independence movement was hardening. The pattern was never adopted; full-scale armed conflict began in 1954, and the question of Algerian currency was ultimately settled only after independence in 1962.