5 Centimes

Berrouaghia is a small inland town in the Titteri region, roughly 100 km south of Algiers. During the First World War, the acute shortage of small metallic coinage across France and its territories prompted hundreds of communes, chambers of commerce, and municipalities to issue their own emergency paper substitutes — known as monnaies de nécessité or bons de nécessité. Berrouaghia's 5 centimes bon sits among the most obscure of these, issued at the commune level rather than by a departmental chamber of commerce, which makes it considerably rarer in the record than the better-documented Algiers or Oran chamber issues.

Commune-level Algerian necessity notes from this period are poorly catalogued, and survival rates are low — locally circulated small denominations were heavily used and rarely saved.