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50 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bougie-Sétif |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE Délibération du 17 Avril 1915 BOUGIE SETIF 50 CENTIMES عشرة سوردى Le Président Le Trésorier SÉRIE N° |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print on cream paper with a stippled border frame matching the obverse. A circular 'CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BOUGIE' seal vignette appears at left, while the large denomination '50 CENTIMES 50' is centered with an Arabic bilingual inscription beneath it. A circular panel at right carries the anti-counterfeiting penal code warning, and a rectangular legend panel at the foot states the note's exchangeability against Banque de l'Algérie notes. |
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Bougie-Sétif was a joint Chamber of Commerce serving two distinct Algerian towns — the coastal port of Bougie (now Béjaïa) and the inland market city of Sétif — an unusual administrative pairing that produced equally unusual emergency currency. These chambre de commerce notes appeared across French Algeria in 1915 because the outbreak of war triggered immediate hoarding of coin, draining small change from everyday commerce almost overnight.
Imprimerie Adolphe Jourdan, the Algiers press responsible for this note, closed permanently in 1916 — the year after this issue — making its printed output a finite corpus.