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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 lettering | 5 CENT. No BONE - IMP. CENTRALE MARIANI |
| Reverse description | The reverse, printed on the same orange-red paper stock, carries a faint impression of a handwritten or manuscript signature applied in darker ink, visible against the plain ground within a lightly suggested rectangular border. The surface is otherwise unadorned, consistent with the emergency character of this wartime local issue. |
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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.