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5 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1909-1925 |
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| Currency | Franc (1848-1959) |
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| Reverse description | A roaring lion's head vignette is centred at the top of the design, surmounting a large circular guilloche frame enclosing the denomination CINQ FRANCS in letterpress with the Arabic equivalent below. Two intaglio medallion portraits are set within elaborate foliate scrollwork: at left, a female head in profile wearing a winged diadem (Mercury), and at right, a bearded male head wearing a lion-skin helmet. At the lower centre, a circular emblem bears a crescent and star motif within a decorative border. |
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| Signature(s) | 1909 - Chenu & Pantin 1910-1914 / 17.07.1912 - Moyse & Pantin 1914-1919 / 20.07.1914 - Moyse & Biron 1924-1925 / 21.01.1924 - Moyse & Penalva |
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The Banque de France printed this note for the Banque de l'Algérie, a colonial arrangement that kept Algeria's currency supply firmly under metropolitan control. Wullschleger was one of the Banque de France's most accomplished intaglio engravers of the period, and his work here reflects the same exacting standards applied to French domestic issues. Harang, who worked under the pseudonym Cabasson, designed across several decades of French colonial and domestic paper.
The sixteen-year span of this issue and its four distinct signature combinations document the administrative turnover of two prolonged offices — Moyse served as one signatory across all three later pairings, an unusual continuity for a series of this length.