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5 Centimes
| Issuer | Commune of Affreville (Department of Alger) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Currency | Franc (1848-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on pink paper, the note is framed by Art Nouveau scrollwork and floral vine borders with crescent motifs at the upper corners. A circular municipal vignette at left presents an architectural scene, with the denomination numeral '0fr05' set to its right in bold type. The issuer's name arches across the top within a banner, and the authorising Municipal Council deliberation date is inscribed along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | VILLE d'AFFREVILLE 0 fr 05 Délibération du Conseil Municipal du 7 Octobre 1917 (Translation: City of Affreville. Municipal Council deliberation of October 7, 1917.) |
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Affreville — today's Khemis Miliana — was a small French colonial settlement in the Mitidja foothills, and like dozens of Algerian communes during the First World War, it found itself without adequate small change as coin metal was diverted to the war effort. The French metropolitan emergency note program did not extend reliably to Algeria, leaving individual communes to organize their own fiduciary issues. These hyper-local notes were authorized under wartime emergency provisions but operated largely on the trust of the immediate community — functionally worthless ten kilometers away.
Five-centime denominations from commune issues this small rarely survived in any quantity; they were disposable by design.