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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Ville d'Alger (Municipality of Algiers) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 25 Centimes |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark brown on orange paper, the note carries the municipal coat of arms of Algiers at centre, flanked on either side by two rectangular panels each bearing the denomination '25c' in bold letterpress. A decorative border frames the entire design. The printer's imprint appears at the lower left and the city name at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark brown on orange paper, the reverse is dominated by a large oval guilloche vignette with a stippled background, within which the denomination '0F.25C.' is rendered in large, bold numerals with superscript currency indicators. Elaborate arabesque corner ornaments and a zigzag border pattern frame the composition on all sides. |
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Municipal emergency notes of this kind proliferated across French Algeria during the First World War when small-denomination coinage essentially vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply not replaced by a metropolitan administration consumed by the war effort. Algiers issued its own fractional paper rather than wait for Paris to solve a problem it had no immediate interest in solving.
Jules Carbonel was the dominant commercial printer in Algiers at the time, later absorbed into the consolidated Typo-Litho et Jules Carbonel firm. Locally produced, locally circulated, and almost certainly locally destroyed when coin supplies normalized after 1918.