Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
50 Centimes Blue
| Uitgever | Chambre de Commerce de Constantine |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1921 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Yes |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
|---|---|
| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Printed in blue on an orange underprint, the reverse is dominated by an elaborate acanthus-scroll guilloche border enclosing the central denomination. The value "50 CENTIMES" is set within a bold oval cartouche flanked by numeral tablets, with two curved ribbon banners above and below bearing the redemption clause in capital letters. |
| Opschrift keerzijde | ECHANGEABLE CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE 50 CENTIMES |
| Handtekening(en) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beveiligingstype | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving beveiliging | Log in om details te zien |
| Varianten | Log in om details te zien |
| Opmerkingen |
Chambers of commerce across French Algeria issued their own emergency fractional notes during and after World War I to address the chronic shortage of small coinage — a problem that the metropolitan franc system never adequately resolved for the colonies. Constantine's chamber was among the more prolific local issuers in eastern Algeria, producing a series of small-denomination notes through the early 1920s as the coin shortage dragged on well past the armistice.
Adolphe Jourdan was the dominant commercial printer in Algiers for this type of work, supplying chamber notes to multiple municipalities across the colony. That common provenance means the printing quality is consistent but the notes are not rare by manufacture — scarcity, where it exists, comes from low survival rates among heavily circulated low-denomination paper.