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1 Franc - Mines Domaniales de la Sarre type 1920
| Issuer | Mines Domaniales de la Sarre |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Reference(s) | P#2 |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red on white paper, the reverse reproduces both sides of a 1 Franc Semeuse coin dated 1919 within an ornate oval vignette at left, showing the sower figure on one face and the LIBERTÉ ÉGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ legend with denomination on the other. The numeral 1 and the word FRANC appear in large type below the coin vignette. A block of redemption text in French occupies the right portion of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | MINES DOMANIALES DE LA SARRE | RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE | LIBERTÉ · ÉGALITÉ · FRATERNITÉ | 1 FRANC | 1919 | 1 | FRANC | 1 | CES BILLETS DONT LA CONTREVALEUR EST DEPOSÉE AU TRÉSOR FRANÇAIS, SONT REMBOURSABLES PAR LE CAISSIER GÉNÉRAL DES MINES DOMANIALES DE LA SARRE. LEUR REMBOURSEMENT DEVRA ÊTRE DEMANDÉ AVANT LE 1er JANVIER 1930 |
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The Mines Domaniales de la Sarre were the French state-operated coal mines of the Saar territory, awarded to France under the Treaty of Versailles as partial reparation for the deliberate flooding and destruction of French mines by retreating German forces. The territory itself came under League of Nations administration from 1920, but the mines were outright French property — an important legal distinction that explains why this scrip carries the authority of a French state enterprise rather than any banking institution.
These fractional notes were issued to facilitate wage payments and small transactions within a region whose monetary status was genuinely ambiguous in 1920, caught between the departing German mark system and incoming French franc circulation.