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50 Centimes Red
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Constantine |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress in red and black over a blue guilloche underprint, with black serial numbers at upper left and right. The municipal coat of arms of Constantine is centered at the bottom, flanked by the printed facsimile signatures of the Treasurer and President. Issuing authority text and deliberation date are inscribed across the upper and central portions of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE CONSTANTINE DÉLIBÉRATION DE 28 JUIN 1919 50 CENTIMES Le Trésorier Le Président IMP. JOURDAN, ALGER |
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Constantine's Chamber of Commerce began issuing small-denomination emergency paper in 1915 to offset the acute coin shortage caused by wartime metal requisitioning. French Algeria's commercial chambers were authorized to produce local fiduciary notes under a broader metropolitan policy that extended emergency currency powers to colonial territories — a practical concession to the near-total disappearance of bronze and cupro-nickel from everyday trade.
Imprimerie Adolphe Jourdan was the dominant press in Algiers for official and semi-official print work throughout this period. The 1919 date likely reflects a reissue or extended authorization rather than the series' original printing.