25 Centimes

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.