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50 Centimes Bône Chamber of Commerce, Essai
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Bône |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Large bold numeral '50' occupies the centre of the field, accompanied by a superscript 'c' denoting centimes. The circular legend CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE arcs across the upper periphery, with DE BÔNE appearing across the lower periphery, each section separated by small decorative star stops. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bône's Chamber of Commerce issued emergency token coinage in 1915 because the outbreak of World War I had triggered a hoarding crisis across French Algeria — metallic coins vanished from circulation almost immediately as the public lost confidence in the financial system. Chambers of commerce throughout Algeria and metropolitan France filled the vacuum with locally authorized necessity pieces. The Bône issues are among the less common of these Algerian emergency series.
This essai — a trial strike rather than a circulating piece — was produced to test the dies before full issue. Essais of the Bône chamber tokens survive in far smaller numbers than the circulation strikes.