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50 Centimes
| Issuer | Gouvernement Général de l'Afrique Occidentale Française, Colonie de la Côte d'Ivoire |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | GOUVERNEMENT GENERAL DE L'A. O. F. COLONIE DE LA CÔTE D'IVOIRE 0 FR. 50 Le Trésorier-Payeur Le Lt-Gouverneur |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTIMES EXTRAIT DU DÉCRET DU 11 FÉVRIER 1917 50 CENTIMES 50 CENTIMES Les bons de caisse émis auront cours forcé soit dans toute l'étendue de la Colonie, soit dans certaines localités désignées par le Lieutenant-Gouverneur de la Colonie intéressée et ne pourront, en aucun cas, circuler hors de cette Colonie ou de ces localités; ils seront remboursés en espèces dans un délai de deux ans, lequel commencera à courir à partir de la cessation des hostilités. Ceux qui auront contrefait ou falsifié les bons de caisse ou fait usage de ces bons contrefaits ou falsifiés seront poursuivis conformément aux lois et punis de travaux forcés à perpétuité ou de l'emprisonnement perpétuel, suivant le statut personnel des délinquants. Ce bon de caisse a cours forcé dans toute la Colonie. 50 CENTIMES Gorée. — Imp. Gouvt Génal. |
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The Côte d'Ivoire emergency fractional notes of 1917 were authorized under a broader French West African decree allowing individual colonial administrations to issue small-denomination paper to address a severe metallic coin shortage — wartime metal requisitions had stripped local circulation of nearly all silver and bronze. Each colony printed its own, which is why Côte d'Ivoire's issue carries its own colonial header rather than the federation-wide AOF branding used for higher denominations.
The Gorée press had been producing official colonial documents since the nineteenth century, but currency was a different matter — these notes were rudimentary by any standard, and counterfeiting was a genuine concern from the moment of issue.