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50 Centimes Without Arabic text
| Issuer | Chambre de Commerce de Philippeville |
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| Year | 1914 |
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| In circulation to | Yes |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red with a yellow-blue underprint; the note carries black serial numbers. Two seated allegorical female figures appear at the left and right flanking the central text, within a decorative border. Signature lines for the President and the Secretary-Treasurer are printed below the denomination. |
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| Reverse lettering | 0,50 CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE PHILIPPEVILLE Extraits des Délibérations de la Chambre de Commerce de Philippeville EN DATE DU 10 NOVEMBRE 1914 Echangeable contre des billets de la Banque d'Algérie IMP MOULLOT MARSEILLE |
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Philippeville — now Skikda, Algeria — was an Algerian port city under French administration when this note was produced. The Chambre de Commerce issues of 1914 were emergency small-change substitutes, filling a gap created by the hoarding and disappearance of coin at the outbreak of war. Moullot fils aîné was a well-established Marseille commercial printer, not a specialist security printer, which shows in these notes — they were functional documents, not hardened against forgery.
The absence of Arabic text distinguishes this from related issues in the same series that carried bilingual text as a concession to the local population. That omission was a deliberate editorial choice, not an oversight.