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2 Francs Brown
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Oran |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on cream paper with the issuer's name in a central cartouche at top, flanked by decorative foliate scrollwork. A reclining allegorical female figure appears at left, with a vignette of a man ploughing with an ox at bottom centre. Denomination roundels bearing "2 fr" are positioned at lower left and right, with red overprint text and black serial numbers. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print on cream paper, centred on the arms of the Chambre de Commerce d'Oran within a heraldic cartouche, supported on either side by two putti amid agricultural motifs. Denomination roundels reading "2 fr" are set at left and right, with the deliberation date and printer's imprint at lower right. |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency note issues of the early 1920s are often lumped together, but the Oran chamber operated within a particularly acute local shortage — Algeria's coastal trading cities saw coin disappear rapidly during and after the First World War, and metropolitan France was slow to address the gap in its overseas departments and territories. Local commercial chambers stepped in with their own fractional notes, which circulated by practical necessity rather than legal mandate.
Moullot fils aîné was a Marseille-based printing house with long-standing ties to North African commercial printing, making them a natural choice for a chamber whose merchant membership maintained close ties across the Mediterranean. The 1920 date places this at the tail end of the emergency issue period, shortly before central authorities moved to suppress locally issued substitutes.