5 Centimes Bougie Chamber of Commerce; Curved "5" and Large "C"

Features

Issuer	Commune of Bougie (Department of Constantine)
Issuing entity	Bougie Chamber of Commerce
Type	Emergency coinage › Official necessity coins
Year	1915
Value	5 Centimes (0.05)
Currency	Franc (1848-1959)
Composition	Aluminium
Weight	1.4 g
Diameter	25 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 28456
References	Lec# 237 Jean Lecompte; 2007. Monnaies et jetons des colonies françaises = Coins and Tokens of the French Colonies (2^nd Edition). Éditions Victor Gadoury, Monaco, Monaco. , Élie mon# 10.1b Roland Élie; 2003. Monnaies de nécessité et jetons-monnaie: France, colonies, Monaco : 1800-2000 = Necessity Coins and Token-coins. Association des Collectionneurs de Jetons-monnaie, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

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Obverse

Curved 5 bar Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
CHAMBRE
DE
COMMERCE
DE BOUGIE
·1915·

Reverse

Curved 5 bar Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering: 5c

Edge

Plain

Comments

Several variants (not all listed by Lecompte) exist on the size of C and the position of the dash next to 5

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1915

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