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5 Centimes
| Issuer | Commune of Draâ El Mizan (Department of Alger) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 5 Centimes (0.05) |
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| Obverse lettering | COMMUNE DE DRA-EL-MIZAN Ticket de cinq Centimes 0.05 |
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| Reverse lettering | COMMUNE de DRA-EL-MIZAN Délibération du Conseil Municipal du 27 Février 1917 |
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Draâ El Mizan is a small market town in the Kabyle foothills, roughly 80 kilometers southeast of Algiers. During the First World War, the collapse of small-denomination coinage across France and its territories drove hundreds of French communes and chambers of commerce to issue their own emergency paper — necessité notes. Algeria was no exception, and municipal issues of this kind proliferated between 1914 and 1920.
The Department of Alger attribution places administrative responsibility squarely, though the actual printing was almost certainly local or regional. At 5 centimes, this is among the smallest denominations such communes bothered to issue — a reflection of just how completely fractional metal had vanished from daily trade.