Catalog
20 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1903-1910 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE VINGT FRANCS CH-CABASSON, INV ET DEL, 1872. ALBERT - BELLENGER SC. |
| Reverse description | Two allegorical figures are seated in a classical landscape: a male figure at left, associated with agriculture, holds a sickle and sheaves of wheat, while a female figure at right, possibly personifying industry or France, holds a spindle. The central field is left open to accommodate text or official stamps, surrounded by elaborate classical ornamentation executed in fine intaglio engraving. The plate was engraved by Pannemaker fils after Cabasson's 1872 design. |
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The Banque de l'Algérie operated under direct French metropolitan oversight, and its higher-denomination notes from this period were produced at the Banque de France's own printing works in Paris — the same facility turning out notes for domestic French circulation. Cabasson was a prolific designer for the BdF stable, and Pannemaker came from a distinguished Belgian family of engravers whose name runs through French reproductive printmaking for decades.
Pick 72 spans a seven-year window, and date-specific examples at the earlier end of the run are considerably harder to find than those from 1908 onward.