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50 Centimes Brown
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce d'Oran |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE D'ORAN Cinquante Centimes 0,50 Le Président Le Trésorier |
| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print with a central vignette of two cherubs flanking the Chambre de Commerce d'Oran circular seal at bottom centre, surrounded by laurel and floral sprays. Denomination roundels reading "0,50" appear at left and right within a plain ruled border, and the authorising deliberation date is inscribed across the upper field. The printer's imprint appears at the lower right. |
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Oran's Chamber of Commerce resorted to locally authorized emergency paper in the years following World War I, when small-denomination coin shortages across French Algeria made daily commerce genuinely difficult. These chambres de commerce issues were a widespread French and colonial phenomenon of the period — the central authorities tolerated them as a practical stopgap, not a formal monetary arrangement.
Moullot & fils aîné, the Marseille firm that printed this note, was a commercial lithographer rather than a specialist security printer. The relative modesty of the production reflects that — anti-counterfeiting measures were limited.