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50 Francs
| Issuer | Mulhouse, Commune of |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CINQUANTE 50 FRANCS Ce billet est émis sur ordre et sous le contrôle de Messieurs le Sous-Préfet, le Maire de Mulhouse et le Président de la Chambre de Commerce de Mulhouse. MULHOUSE, le 17 Juin 1940 Le Sous-Préfet Le Maire Le Président de la Chambre de Commerce IMP. BRAUN & CIE |
| Reverse description | Reverse carries the same fine guilloche rosette underprint in pale blue-green tones without a surrounding border frame. A stylised Maltese cross device appears at the upper left, with the serial number in the upper right. The large bold denomination "Cinquante Francs" occupies the centre, flanked at lower left and right by the numeral "50", while two blocks of cautionary and redemption text are set in smaller letterpress type above and below the central legend. |
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Mulhouse sits twelve kilometers from the Rhine, and in June 1940 the city fell under German administration almost immediately after the armistice — making this 50 Francs note one of the more geographically pointed emergency issues of the French defeat. Communes across unoccupied and occupied France printed local bons de nécessité when banking infrastructure collapsed, but Alsace was unique: the region reverted to direct Reich administration, not merely occupation, meaning notes like this one had an exceptionally short window of practical use before German currency displaced the franc entirely.
Braun & Cie was an established Mulhouse commercial printer, not a security press.