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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Commune of Affreville (Department of Alger) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on buff paper, the obverse carries the municipal heading VILLE D'AFFREVILLE in a bold banner across the upper field, with the denomination 0fr 25 in large numerals at centre. Decorative scrollwork and floral ornaments frame the corners, and the authorising legend referencing the Municipal Council deliberation of 7 October 1917 appears in two lines across the lower portion. A circular vignette, likely a municipal seal, is visible at the left. |
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| Protection description | Circular blue ink handstamp at centre of reverse bearing the commune's name and official seal, applied as a validation mark |
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Affreville — now Khemis Miliana — was a small colonial commune in the Mitidja region, and like dozens of Algerian municipalities during the First World War, it resorted to issuing its own fractional emergency notes when the acute shortage of small change made commerce difficult. The French metropole had been draining coin for the war effort since 1914, and by 1917 the problem in North African territories was acute enough that even minor communes were printing their own scrip.
The handstamp was the authentication mechanism — without it, the note was simply printed paper. Whether a dedicated rubber stamp or an existing administrative seal was pressed into service varies by commune, and for Affreville specifically the documentation is thin.