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50 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Constantine |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Red and green letterpress print on yellow underprint, with black serial numbers. The central vignette presents a seated allegorical female figure holding a caduceus at left and a male figure with an anvil at right, flanking the large denomination numeral. A decorative guilloche border frames the note, with interlaced diagonal ornamental patterns at the corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CONSTANTINE DÉLIBÉRATION DE 23 JUIN 1921 50 Centimes عشرة سوردي ECHANGEABLE CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE M. Chatillon Graveur Const. - Imp. Lefert |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency notes issued across French Algeria during and after the First World War filled a genuine gap — coin shortages stripped small-denomination currency from circulation almost entirely, and the metropolitan French treasury was in no position to supply the colonies adequately. Constantine's chamber issued its own fractional notes under that same pressure, with local printer Lefert handling production entirely in-province rather than sending work to Paris or Lyon.
Chatillon's engraving credit is unusually specific for a provincial emergency issue of this size.