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50 Centimes Brown
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Oran |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Franc (1848-1959) |
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| Obverse description | Brown print on yellow guilloche underprint, with a decorative lace-pattern border. The central vignette presents two putti flanking the crowned coat of arms of Oran at bottom centre, with floral and foliate ornamentation. The denomination "0.50" appears in a circular cartouche at lower left, with the Arabic equivalent in a matching cartouche at lower right, and the issuer's name arched across the top. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ORAN CINQUANTE CENTIMES Le Président Le Trésorier 0.50 خمسين سنتيم (Translation: Oran Chamber of Commerce. Fifty centimes. The President. The Treasurer. Fifty centimes.) |
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The Chambres de Commerce across French Algeria issued their own emergency fractional notes during and after World War One, filling a gap left by the chronic shortage of small coin. Oran's chamber was among the most active, producing several denominations through the early 1920s as the coin shortage dragged on far longer than anyone had anticipated.
These local chamber notes had no status beyond their issuing region — legally valid in Oran, worthless elsewhere in Algeria without arrangement.