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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Ville d'Alger (Municipality of Algiers) |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE D'ALGER 25c. Délibération du Conseil Municipal en date du 9 Mars 1917 IMP. J. CARBONEL ALGER (Translation: City of Algiers. Municipal Council deliberation of March 9, 1917.) |
| 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.