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5 Centimes
| Uitgever | Union Commerciale de Ténès |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1916-1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Plain beige card stock with no vignette or ornamental underprint. The issuer's name is typeset in two lines of bold black letterpress capitals across the centre of the note, reading "UNION COMMERCIALE" above "DE TÉNÈS", with no further decorative elements. |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | BON POUR CINQ CENTIMES 0.05 (Translation: Good for five centimes.) |
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| Opmerkingen |
Ténès is a small coastal town in western Algeria — not an obvious candidate for a private currency issuer. But during the First World War, the acute shortage of small change across French Algeria prompted dozens of local commercial associations, municipalities, and private bodies to print their own emergency fractional notes. The Union Commerciale de Ténès was one of these stopgap arrangements, filling the gap left by the hoarding of metal coin that gripped the whole of the French empire from 1914 onward.
These hyperlocal Algerian emergency issues are poorly documented. Survival rates are low simply because they were printed in small quantities, used hard, and never formally redeemed through any centralized system.