20 Francs - Charlotte John the Blind

John the Blind, Count of Luxembourg and King of Bohemia, died at Crécy in 1346 — famously ordering his knights to tie their horses to his so he could charge into battle despite being completely sightless. Luxembourg resurrected him as the face of post-liberation coinage in 1946, a deliberate assertion of national identity after five years of German occupation and forced Germanization under the Nazis.

The series ran through 1964, spanning the reign of Grand Duchess Charlotte, whose own wartime exile in London gave the choice of imagery particular political weight.