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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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| Value | 50 Centimes (0.50) |
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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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| Obverse lettering | CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE PHILIPPEVILLE Cinquante Centimes Le Président Le Secrétaire Trésorier |
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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.