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50 Centimes - Mines Domaniales de la Sarre type 1920
| Issuer | Mines Domaniales de la Sarre |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Franc (1919-1935) |
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| Obverse description | A circular vignette at left contains a three-quarter bust of Minerva in helmet, facing right, rendered in fine intaglio engraving. The denomination CINQUANTE CENTIMES is printed in large bold letterpress to the right, beneath the issuer's name, with a serial number and two manuscript signatures below, attributed to Le Directeur Général and Le Caissier Général. The entire design is framed by a decorative guilloche border with floral corner ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | ETAT FRANCAIS MINES DOMANIALES DE LA SARRE CINQUANTE CENTIMES |
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After World War I, the Saar coal mines were placed under French administration by the League of Nations as partial reparation for the deliberate flooding and destruction of French mines during the German retreat. The Mines Domaniales de la Sarre became the operational authority for that territory, and these small-denomination emergency notes were issued to facilitate day-to-day wage payments and canteen transactions among the mining workforce — a closed economic loop that had little need for conventional banking infrastructure.
The 1920 date puts this note in the earliest phase of that administrative arrangement, before the territory developed more stable monetary footing.