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50 Centimes Blue text
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Alger |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ALGER DELIBERATION DU 22 JUIN 1921 50 CENTIMES IMP. J. CARBONEL |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 CENTIMES 50 CES COUPURES SERONT ÉCHANGEABLES CONTRE DES BILLETS DE LA BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE |
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The Chambre de Commerce d'Alger issued emergency small-change notes during and after the First World War to address a chronic shortage of fractional coinage — a problem that plagued French Algeria far more acutely than metropolitan France, given the difficulty of getting coin shipments across the Mediterranean in wartime. These chambre de commerce emissions filled a gap that the Banque de l'Algérie, focused on larger denominations, had little interest in covering.
Imprimerie Jules Carbonel was among the most active commercial printers in colonial North Africa, handling a wide range of official and semi-official work from its Algiers premises. Locally printed emergency notes of this type are considerably less common than their French metropolitan equivalents.