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50 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Algérie |
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| Year | 1908 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central oval guilloche vignette in blue bearing the denomination "cinquante francs" and payability text, flanked by two reclining cherubs at lower left and right. The numeral 50 appears in each outer corner, with the word TUNISIE printed vertically along the left margin as an overprint. A legal warning cartouche is positioned at upper centre, with two manuscript signatures below — those of the Secrétaire Général and the Caissier — accompanied by Arabic text and a serial number. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue and centres on a large numeral 50 within an ornate guilloche oval, surrounded by elaborate scrollwork and floral arabesques. Four allegorical portrait medallions are disposed at the cardinal points of the oval — two female busts at upper left and upper right, and two further portrait vignettes at lower left and lower right — each framed within decorative cartouches. The denomination numeral 50 repeats in each outer corner, and two legal warning panels flank the central design. |
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The Banque de l'Algérie was established in 1851 as a colonial institution with the note-issuing monopoly for French Algeria, operating under close oversight from Paris rather than functioning as a true central bank. By 1908, the bank had been printing its higher denominations through the workshops of the Banque de France — a common arrangement for French colonial note production of this period, though the institutional relationship remained formally distinct.
Harang, who worked under the pseudonym Cabasson, was a prolific contributor to French colonial fiduciary engraving in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Bertrand's intaglio work on this series is considered technically accomplished for its date.
Pick lists only a handful of surviving confirmed examples for P#3.