Catalog
50 Francs
| Issuer | Bank of Algeria - French Administration |
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| Year | 1903-1910 |
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| Currency | Franc (1848-1959) |
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| Obverse lettering | BANQUE DE L'ALGÉRIE cinquante francs. PAYABLES A VUE AU PORTEUR خمسين فرنك في جزائر L'ART. 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ LE CONTREFACTEUR Le Secrétaire Gal Le Caissier Prl CH-CABASSON, INV ET DEL, 1872. A-V BERTRAND SCULP. (Translation: Bank of Algeria / Fifty francs / Payable on sight to the bearer) |
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| Reverse lettering | BA...LGÉRIE 50 L'ARTICLE 139 DU CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ LE CONTREFACTEUR CH-CABASSON, INV ET DEL, 1872. A-V BERTRAND SCULP. |
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The Bank of Algeria operated under direct French metropolitan oversight throughout this period, and its higher-denomination notes were produced by the Banque de France printing works in Paris — the same facility supplying the French domestic series. That relationship meant Algerian notes often shared plate elements and technical conventions with contemporary French issues, a deliberate policy intended to reinforce confidence among European settlers skeptical of colonial paper.
Harang worked under the pseudonym Cabasson for his commercial engraving commissions. Bertrand's intaglio work on this series is characteristic of the disciplined Paris house style of the early Third Republic period.