Catalog
50 Francs
| Issuer | Banque de l'Algérie |
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| Year | 1928-1936 |
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| Designer(s) | Georges Duval |
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| Reverse lettering | ARTICLE 139 _ LE CODE PÉNAL PUNIT DES TRAVAUX FORCÉS À PERPÉTUITÉ LE CONTREFACTEUR GEO DUVAL - FEC C ROMAGNOLI - SC |
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| Protection description | Watermark visible in the blank cartouche areas on both sides. |
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The Banque de l'Algérie, though nominally a colonial institution, operated under a concession from the French state and functioned as Algeria's de facto central bank from 1851 through independence. This series spans a particularly stable period — no currency crisis, no wartime emergency — which is precisely why examples in decent order survive in reasonable numbers.
Romagnoli's engraving work is the note's distinguishing credential. A skilled intaglio engraver active in France during the interwar decades, his contribution gives the printing a depth and line quality that offset lithography of the period rarely matched.