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5 Centimes Bougie Chamber of Commerce, Curved '5' and Large 'C'
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bougie |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Plain field bearing a multi-line inscribed legend arranged concentrically within a beaded border. The text reads 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BOUGIE' in bold raised lettering distributed across four lines, with the date '1915' appearing in the lower portion of the field, flanked by raised dots serving as decorative stops. The overall design is purely typographic with no central device, conveying the issuing authority and date of emission in a direct, functional manner characteristic of French colonial emergency issues. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Bougie — today Béjaïa, Algeria — saw its Chamber of Commerce issue emergency aluminium tokens in 1915 as World War I drained metropolitan France of small change, leaving colonial ports critically short of circulating fractions. These jetons de nécessité filled a genuine gap; the Banque de l'Algérie could not respond fast enough to local shortages in secondary coastal cities.
The curved '5' and large 'C' distinguish this as the 10.1b variety per El Monedero, a die pairing that collectors have long used to sequence the Bougie issues chronologically within the 1915 emission.