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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Ville de Boghari (Commune of Boghari, Department of Alger) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on orange cardboard, framed by a decorative typographic border with ornamental corner pieces. A curved ribbon cartouche at the top carries the issuer name VILLE DE BOGHARI, below which the large-denomination numeral 0.25 appears at lower left and the text BON POUR is set in bold across the centre. The title LE MAIRE appears at right with a handwritten mayoral signature beneath it. |
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| Reverse lettering | LES TICKETS SERONT ÉCHANGÉS CONTRE DES BONS DE LA CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ALGER OU CONTRE DES BILLETS DE BANQUE |
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Boghari — now Ksar el-Boukhari — is a small inland town in the Titteri highlands, about 150 kilometers south of Algiers. This piece belongs to the wave of municipal emergency cardboard money that appeared across French Algeria from 1915 onward, issued because the outbreak of war had triggered immediate hoarding of metallic coin, stripping small-denomination currency from everyday commerce far faster than the colonial administration could respond.
Imprimerie Saumon-Marcel Léon was one of the principal commercial printers serving the Algiers press at the time, handling municipal and administrative work across the department. The orange cardboard stock is characteristic of the firm's low-denomination issues for smaller communes.