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50 Centimes
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Constantine |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on plain paper, with an oval guilloche frame at centre bearing the denomination '50 CENTIMES' in bold lettering and the Arabic inscription below. The issuer's name and the deliberation date arc across the upper portion of the oval, while the municipal coat of arms — surmounted by a crown and flanked by laurel branches — appears at bottom centre between the signature lines for the President and the Secretary-Treasurer. Ornamental '50' numerals fill the four corners of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTIMES عشرة سوردى ECHANGEABLE CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE |
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The Chambres de Commerce emergency notes issued across French Algeria during and after World War I filled a gap left by the chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage. Constantine's chamber issued this 50 centimes piece under necessity provisions that had already been in place for several years by 1922 — the continued need for such notes that late into the postwar period reflects how slowly the coinage shortage resolved in the region's commercial economy.
Algerian chamber notes from this period are frequently encountered with heavy soiling and handling damage, a direct result of circulating in markets where paper of this value was used daily for small transactions.