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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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| Currency | Franc (1848-1959) |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black letterpress on pink paper, the reverse bears five lines of centred text stating the redeemability of the ticket in Bank of Algeria banknotes at the issuing office. The composition is plain, without ornamental borders, relying solely on the typeset inscription to convey the note's monetary guarantee. |
| 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.