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15 Centimes
| Issuer | Union Commerciale de Ténès (Commune of Ténès, Department of Alger) |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
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| Value | 15 Centimes (0.15) |
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| Obverse description | Plain yellowish-tan paper note of rudimentary wartime production, with all text applied by rubber stamp in black ink. The issuer's name is stamped in two lines across the centre, with a circular or partial cachet stamp reading 'COMPTOIR DE TENES / TENES (ALGERIE)' visible in the background, overlapping the central text. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMPTOIR DE TENES UNION COMMERCIALE DE TENES TENES (ALGERIE) (Translation: Tenes Trading Post / Tenes Commercial Union / Tenes (Algeria).) |
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| Comments |
Emergency fractional paper issued by a municipal trade association during the First World War, when the chronic small-change shortage across French Algeria forced dozens of local commercial unions to print their own low-denomination scrip. The Union Commerciale de Ténès was one of several such bodies in the Alger department to do so, filling a gap that the Banque de l'Algérie — and Paris — were in no position to address quickly.
Ténès itself is a small coastal town west of Alger, and notes from this issuer are rarely encountered outside specialist collections of French colonial necessity issues.