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10 Francs - Mines Domaniales de la Sarre type 1920
| Issuer | Mines Domaniales Françaises de la Sarre |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 138 × 88 mm |
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| Reverse description | An intaglio vignette occupies the right portion of the note, showing a seated peasant woman resting pensively on a haystack with a sickle at her feet, rendered in a fine engraved style against a rural landscape. A large blank circular cartouche at upper left is reserved for the serial number, while the numeral 10 appears in the lower left margin. The bilingual German redemption text is set in a rectangular panel at the bottom, with the engravers' signatures GEO. DUVAL. FEC. and ROMAGNOL SC. inscribed in the lower margins. |
| Reverse lettering | DIESER GELDSCHEIN WIRD, IM SAARGEBIET, DURCH DEN GENERALKASSIERER DES GRUBENVERWALTUNG GEGEN EINEN SCHECK IM GLEICHEN BETRAG AUF DIE BANQUE DE FRANCE UMGEWECHSELT ; IN FRANKREICH WIRD ER VON DER BANQUE DE FRANCE AN DEN KASSEN ALLER IHRER NIEDERLASSUNGEN, GEGEN DEREN EIGENE NOTEN UND FUR DEN GLEICHEN BETRAG, IN TAUSCH GENOMMEN. GEO. DUVAL. FEC. ROMAGNOL SC |
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The Mines Domaniales Françaises de la Sarre was the French state-run authority managing the Saar coalfields awarded to France under the Treaty of Versailles as partial reparation for the destruction of French mines during the war. Because the Saar territory operated under League of Nations administration from 1920, it sat outside both the French and German monetary systems, creating a practical gap. These notes were issued as a localized industrial scrip to pay miners and facilitate commerce within the colliery zone — not a national currency by any definition, but functionally indistinguishable from one in daily use.
Romagnoli's engraving work here is notably fine for what is essentially an industrial paymaster's instrument.