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25 Centimes
| Issuer | Nouveau Comptoir d'Escompte de Batna (Union des Commerçants de la Ville de Batna) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Value | 25 Centimes |
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| Obverse lettering | NOUVEAU COMPTOIR DESCOMPTE DE BATNA Union des Commerçants DE LA VILLE DE BATNA Ticket de 0,25 ENCAISSEMENT (Translation: New Discount Office of Batna. Merchants Union of the City of Batna. Cash receipt.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Ticket de 0,25 remboursable en billets de la Banque de l'Algérie au Nouveau Comptoir d'Escompte de Batna (Translation: Ticket worth 0.25, redeemable in Bank of Algeria banknotes at the New Discount Office in Batna.) |
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The Nouveau Comptoir d'Escompte de Batna was one of dozens of local commercial associations across French Algeria that issued emergency small-change notes during 1915, when wartime metal requisitioning drained coinage from circulation almost completely. These were not bank notes in any formal sense — they were trade tokens on paper, backed by the collective credit of local merchants rather than any colonial monetary authority.
Batna, a garrison town in the Aurès region, saw particularly acute coin shortages given its role as a military staging point. Whether this specific issue was ever officially sanctioned by the Gouvernement Général is unclear.