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5 Centimes
| Issuer | Commune of Bône (Department of Constantine) |
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| Year | 1916-1918 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Printed on orange-red paper, the obverse bears a simple letterpress design consisting of a thin rectangular border with small corner ornaments enclosing the large numeral '5' and the denomination 'CENT.' in bold black type. Below, a serial number prefixed by 'No' is printed in the same black ink. The printer's imprint and a control number appear in small type along the bottom margin outside the frame. |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 CENT. No BONE - IMP. CENTRALE MARIANI |
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| Comments |
Bône's municipal emergency notes of 1916–1918 belong to a well-documented phenomenon across French Algeria during the First World War: the near-total disappearance of small-denomination metal coinage, hoarded or melted down as base metal values rose. Communes were left to improvise, and dozens of Algerian municipalities issued their own paper substitutes with whatever printing resources were locally available.
Mariani's shop was a local commercial press, not a security printer. These notes were never intended to outlast the war.