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1000 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1903-1924 |
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| Reference(s) | P#76 |
| Obverse description | Printed in steel-blue intaglio throughout, the obverse presents a classical allegorical female figure holding an oar at left and a standing male blacksmith at right, flanking a central letterpress panel inscribed "MILLE FRANCS" above a bilingual Arabic legend and three manuscript signature lines for the Secrétaire général, Directeur général, and Caissier principal. At lower centre, two seated putti flank a recumbent lion, while two oval guilloche cartouches bearing the counterfeiting penalty clause are positioned at mid-left and mid-right. The engraver's and designer's credits appear in small print within the lower border. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE IL SERA PAYÉ EN ESPÈCES, A VUE, AU PORTEUR MILLE FRANCS L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PENAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCES A PERPETUITÉ LE CONTREFACTEUR JH-CABASSON, INV ET DEL. CH-J. ROBERT SC. |
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The Banque de l'Algérie operated under a renewable concession from the French state, and the 1,000 Franc denomination was essentially an instrument of the settler economy — too large for most Algerian daily commerce and oriented toward the European mercantile class running trade between Algiers and Marseille. The plates were executed by Robert and Wullschleger at the Banque de France's printing works, the same atelier responsible for metropolitan French issues of the period, which explains the visual continuity with Paris-issued notes.
The 21-year span of this issue across three distinct signature combinations reflects just how stable — or static — colonial monetary administration was. The 1918 date falls mid-war, when the Algerian economy was under considerable strain from wartime requisitions and labor mobilization.